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The Feminist Economics of Austerity
In the wake of the global financial crisis, governments in many countries have imposed widespread cuts in public expenditure and social rights, some of which have been so dramatic that they have been described as austericide . This book explores the financial crisis and the policies implemented in response to it in terms of the differences in the ways in which women and men have been affected by it, using an approach which combines feminist economics and a political economy framework. The book s aim is to question conventional economic theories in order to present more critical and realistic policy approaches. The breadth of the book s exploration of the impact of the cuts, exploring issues such as gender stereotyping and the sustainability of welfare systems, moves it beyond other analyses of gender and the crisis."
The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy
This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participation in the labor market, studies occupational segregation by gender and analyzes labor transitions, questioning whether the experience for men and women differs. It also explores the effect of entrepreneurship support programs on women's economic and social positions, as well as the public policy implications of women's entry into the labor market. The book investigates working women in Mexico and also offers comparisons with countries such as Spain and developing countries within Eastern Europe. It explores a variety of topics, from ...
Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders
Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxism theory. Using this synthesis, it provides an in-depth analysis of Spain’s recent socio-economic evolution since the early 1990s. The book develops a theoretical framework capable of appraising capitalist dynamics together with their relationship to the institutional environment surrounding and structuring them. This is in order to explore the interrelation between the historical development of the capitalist mode of production, on the one hand, and the various co-existing social proce...
Learning to Innovate: Learning regions
This book presents different approaches to regional development based on knowledge and innovation in Andalusia, Spain (and some other countries).
Gender and Well-Being
Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal services to all or to some specific groups of citizens in need. The purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these institutions and their impact on well-being, and to analyze key policies and measures that have been implemented in European countries. Institutions determine labour demand (men and women are hired by the institutions of the Welfare State or by market providers of care), the possibilities of consumption (wages ear...
Politicising and gendering care for older people
This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in several European contexts. It interrogates how care for older adults varies across time and place while searching for an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy in different countries and at various societal and political levels. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services and family care. The contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels.
World Development Report 2013
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and social backgrounds and provide alternatives to conflict. Jobs are thus more than a byproduct of economic growth. They are transformational —they are what we earn, what we do, and even who we are. High unemployment and unmet job expectations among youth are th...
Nuevas perspectivas en la investigación docente de la historia económica
Esta publicación incluye más de cuarenta trabajos elaborados por casi ochenta historiadores en los cuales se recogen algunas de las principales iniciativas y preocupaciones en el campo de la enseñanza de la historia económica. Preguntas relacionadas con la selección de nuevos contenidos o el impacto de la utilización de nuevas estrategias metodológicas y de las nuevas tecnologías son abordadas en estas investigaciones. Otros trabajos se plantean como objetivo reflexionar sobre cómo se puede impulsar el desarrollo de la investigación en innovación educativa al tiempo que sus resultados pueden ser contrastados de forma empírica.
Economía política feminista
La economía política feminista constituye una aproximación crítica y alternativa a los análisis de la economía convencional y a las deficiencias estructurales de un sistema capitalista, heteropatriarcal y racista que ha puesto en jaque la sostenibilidad de la vida, causando y agravando el conflicto capital-vida. La financiarización descontrolada, la mercantilización de cada vez más procesos de la vida íntima, la privatización creciente de medios de producción y sectores económicos, la invisibilización de la economía de cuidados o la sobreexplotación de una fuerza de trabajo feminizada y precaria son algunos de los aspectos abordados por la economía política feminista. Esta ...
