Bridging an Alternative
In this chapter I draw on international experience to relate the notion of a political ethics of care to the struggle to reduce the care penalty. I sketch out a political path for an organized “claim for recognition” for erased occupational skills through
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Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing
The Erasure of Employees’ Caring Skills
Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing
Orly Benjamin
Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing The Erasure of Employees’ Caring Skills
Orly Benjamin Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
With the support of The Schnitzer Foundation for research on economic and social issues in Israel ISBN 978-3-319-40726-5 ISBN 978-3-319-40727-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40727-2
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In loving Memory of my Grandmother Fanny Pinku and my Mother Yeti Pinku, strong immigrant women struggling to provide and care for their families.
PREFACE
Employees in service and care occupations’ work is identified with both slavery and expert knowledge. Women and men are employed in service and care occupations (SACO) in a range of positions where hard work is sometimes appropriately recognized and remunerated but often is not. The value of the work, and how skilled it is, remain ideologically contested. Those who believe that SACO employees possess valuable skills that are based on their occupational training, and that they should benefit from the continuous development of workers as citizens, support claims for recognition made by SACO employees themselves. In contrast, those who want to pay SACO employees less (or not pay them at all) promote ideologies and policy practices that undervalue SACO employees’ work and deskill them. When the latter ideologies and policy practices dominate, they attempt to erase all historical feminist achievements that hav
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