Publication:
Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorWarren, Tracy
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Luis
dc.contributor.authorLyonette, Clare
dc.contributor.authorTarlo, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-03T16:26:15Z
dc.date.available2025-03-03T16:26:15Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both have been under-valued and under-rewarded. The pandemic shone a fresh light on the societal importance of this work and highlighted how its under-valuation and the women's systemic low pay and inferior working conditions have serious ramifications not only for individual workers and their families but for the provision of key services. The article centres WCW, at the intersection of classed and gendered disadvantage, to ask about inequalities in work experiences. Analysing nationally representative samples of thousands of workers in the UK prior to and as Covid-19 rolled out, we compare WCW with other workers. We show that the women faced both persistent and new inequalities at work: enduring low earnings, pandemic-led risks to jobs and paid hours, little opportunity to work from home or flexibly, and stressful key working roles. We reveal the heavily classed nature of some of these findings, show that others were more strongly gendered, while still others were classed and gendered outcomes that require intersectional analyses of the women's working lives.
dc.description.versionVersión aceptada
dc.format.extent18 p.
dc.identifier.citationWarren T, Torres L, Lyonette C, Tarlo R. Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times. Br J Sociol. 2025 Jan;76(1):96-113. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13147.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13147
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11447/9887
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCovid‐19
dc.subjectEmployment
dc.subjectPandemic
dc.subjectRisks
dc.subjectWages
dc.subjectWorking‐classwomen
dc.titleClass, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.accessRightsAcceso abierto
dcterms.sourceThe British Journal of Sociology
dspace.entity.typePublication

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
British Journal of Sociology - 2024 - Warren - Class gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times.pdf
Size:
1.31 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
347 B
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Artículos Economía y Negocios

Implementado por OpenGeek Services