Gender And Welfare Service Work In Biocapitalism Lean In Action | Sociology

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real corporeal collective and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes knowledges affects skills and materialities come together in manifold complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork interviews and observation and with empirical and theoretical rigour the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become ‘Leaned’. As in many other fields the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism – that is biocapitalism – in which bios life itself becomes the core of value production. The book adds to the corpus of work organisation and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender affect or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science Management and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management. The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by University of Eastern Finland. |Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action | Sociology