H Gottfried
Biographic Data
| ID | 120884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Gottfried |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottfried |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTFRIED H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7699-3609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Conceptualizing care inequalities and modalities ofresistance
Cet article propose une réflexion sur les nouvelles conceptualisations du travail de care dans une économie du care en expansion. Ces nouvelles conceptualisations du care mettent en évidence l'hétérogénéité et les hiérarchies du travail de care, identifiant des inégalités multiples et complexes, tant parmi les aidants à domicile qu'entre les aidants des différents domaines de l'économie du care. Les pratiques de care sont théorisées non seulement…
A Revolutionary Spring? Reflections on After the Arab Uprisings
Introduction: The future of gender regimes
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective
Global Capitalism and Labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China
Tacit Knowledge in Low-Status Eldercare Work
Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge that informs eldercare is key to understanding how and why the labor of workers in this area of professional caregiving, especially those earning low wages, is dramatically undervalued in the US health sector. This essay first explains key differences in credential-based knowledge and tacit forms of health knowledge and then considers how status differentiation privileges credential-based knowledge of…
Crisis and change: The politics of potentialities: a reply to ‘Crisis and society: developing the theory of crisis in the context of Covid-19’, by Sylvia Walby
This is a reply to 'Crisis and society: developing the theory of crisis in the context of COVID-19' by Sylvia Walby (2022). COVID-19 raises the profile of and renews interest in large questions that animate social theory. Sylvia Walby's macrostructural approach returns crisis theory to sociology's heritage borne out of similar tumultuous periods in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Revolutionary upsurges punctuating the 'Age of Capital' Crisi…
Understanding the Trajectory of Japanese Capitalism
How can we understand the trajectory of Japanese capitalism? This Afterword situates Japan on a broad canvas stretching across both the region and the globe. East Asia's regional dynamics figure prominently, shaping the trajectory of Japanese capitalism not only in the formative Age of Empire and postwar reconstruction, but also in the emergent Asian Century. An historical examination of geo-politics highlights imperial entanglements and both the…
Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration, and Care
This article presents a broad overview of the emerging field of scholarship on gender, migration and care work. The first section provides a rationale for linking the embodied intimate labor of sex workers and surrogate mothers to more traditional caregiving among nannies, nurses and eldercare aids. Through an intersectional optic on power and domination in care workers' everyday lives, we highlight the ways in which love's labor is lost and deva…
The Phoenix Rises: Tokyo's Origins as a Global City
Tokyo's dizzyingly disarrayed built environment almost defies rendering an interpretation of the city's symbolism. To do so, this article puts forth a geography of power approach that imposes order on the urban grid for analyzing Tokyo, both as a symbolic space and as a terrain of struggle. The global ascendance of Tokyo was made possible by the state's developmental economic projects materialized in massive infrastructure and architecture built …
Hsing-Huang Michael Hsiao, Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison, Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Asia
The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment
Dystopia or Utopia? Alternative Visions of the City of Detroit: Detropia and We Are Not Ghosts
Precarious Work in Japan: Old Forms, New Risks
This paper scrutinises the growing trends and tendencies toward nonstandard employment in Japan to understand the making of new risk profiles. Since the first signs of new risk profiles emerged prior to the bursting of the economic bubble, an analysis should not, as many have done, isolate the 1990s. Yet, few noticed that the growth of nonstandard employment had preceded the reversal of economic fortunes. Often, characterisation of the Japanese m…
Temporary Work
Gender and Employment: A Global Lens on Feminist Analyses and Theorizing of Labor Markets
This review of feminist analyses and theorizing of labor markets uses a global lens to reveal the forces shaping gender inequality. The review focuses on the increasing dominance of services primarily in the liberal market economies of the United States and the United Kingdom along with examples from Asia where restructuring has shifted locations of work and affected new ways of working by a diverse and mobile workforce. Labor market restructurin…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Gender and Employment: A Global Lens on Feminist Analyses and Theorizing of Labor Markets
Author’s introduction This review of recent feminist analyses and theorizing of labor markets uses a global lens to reveal the forces shaping gender inequality. The first section introduces the key words of globalization, gender and work organization. Next, I examine gender as embodied labor activity in globalized worksites, and the effects of globalization on gendered patterns of work and life. Putting gender at the center of globalization disco…
Pathways to Economic Security: Gender and Nonstandard Employment in Contemporary Japan
Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and
Hard Times, New Deals: The Next Upsurge
Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Gendering Globalization Discourses
Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research
This article reviews feminist comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics and the state.The first section examines a range of theoretical approaches to the topic.W e then present a variety of methodologies for conducting comparative and transnational research on policy developments.Informed by a number of case studies included in the symposium, we explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, of …
Fundamental Violations
Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research
This article reviews feminist comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics and the state. The first section examines a range of theoretical approaches to the topic. We then present a variety of methodologies for conducting comparative and transnational research on policy developments. Informed by a number of case studies included in the symposium, we explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, o…
Compromising positions: Emergent neo-Fordisms and embedded gender contracts
This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo‐Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo‐Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post‐Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains institutionalized the terms of a compromise between labo…
In the Margins: Flexibility as a Mode of Regulation in the Temporary Help Service Industry
As firms increasingly rely on temporary clerical workers, previous control mechanisms centred in the workplace no longer are sufficient to maintain labor discipline and ensure production quality and uniformity. Through participant observation of four U.S. temporary help service firms and two placement sites, this case study reveals forms of control that differ from those in place at more commonly studied manufacturing enterprises. Temporary help …
Gendering Work: Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese Economic Miracle
The story of the Japanese system, held up as a model for economic prosperity and growth, underplays the role of non-standard labour in the narrative of `success'. Our analysis deconstructs the narrative of the Japanese economic miracle to shed light on this almost invisible pillar by tracing the historical development of non-standard employment among women. We find that this form of work constitutes a larger and faster growing share of total empl…
Mechanisms of control in the temporary help service industry
Reregulating breadwinner models in socially conservative welfare systems: Comparing Germany and Japan
Through a paired comparison between Japan and Germany, we suggest that the legacy of the strong male-breadwinner model creates particular pressures on socially conservative welfare states in a period of restructuring. These countries are reregulating gender relations in different ways. We relate differences between Germany and Japan to contrasting state-society relations: specifically the role of the Japanese state in trying to stem both economic…
Temp(t)ing Bodies: Shaping Gender at Work in Japan
This article explores how gender is embodied and embedded in organizations. Organizational embodiment and gendered work are linked to new forms of labor market segmentation around aesthetic labor. The analysis makes visible the situated forms of body management and the productive modes of embodiment in a gender regime as ways of organizing and ordering masculinities and femininities in a valued hierarchy. A case study of temporary employment prov…
Beyond Patriarchy? Theorising Gender and Class
This paper questions recent attempts by feminists to move theory beyond patriarchy, addressing the charge by Pollert that the concept of patriarchy impoverishes analysis of gender and class. In place of patriarchy, the author advocates an alternative feminist historical materialist analysis of hegemonic practices as the means for excavating gender and class from lived experience. This mode of historical materialist theorising rejects the concept …
Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Precarious Work in Japan: Old Forms, New Risks
This paper scrutinises the growing trends and tendencies toward nonstandard employment in Japan to understand the making of new risk profiles. Since the first signs of new risk profiles emerged prior to the bursting of the economic bubble, an analysis should not, as many have done, isolate the 1990s. Yet, few noticed that the growth of nonstandard employment had preceded the reversal of economic fortunes. Often, characterisation of the Japanese m…
Pathways to Economic Security: Gender and Nonstandard Employment in Contemporary Japan
Constructing Difference: The Making of Gendered Subcultures in a Japanese Automobile Assembly Plant
Using participant observation, this article explores the social forces giving rise to workers' culture in a Japanese automobile assembly plant. Most theories share the problematic assumption that workers' culture is homogeneous, obscuring the emergence of, and interplay between, subcultures. Subcultures encourage male and female workers to see themselves in opposition to the other and to articulate narrowly constructed gender subjectivities that …
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective
Gendering Globalization Discourses
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Developing Neo-Fordism: A Comparative Perspective
The current social reorganization of production centers around a move toward greater flexibilization in the workplace and the casualization of the labor force. As was true for prior changes in labor law, the degree and nature of legislative initiatives reflect the strength of competing interests between capital and labor in the policy arena. By detailing both how some states have been historically more or less proactive and how labor has been mor…
The Impact of Skill on Union Membership: Rethinking Gender Differences
A worker's occupation and industry position in the economy primarily determine gender differences in union membership. However, the data reveal that these economic structural factors are not alone responsible. A specific strategy for rethinking the problem examines bargaining power; skill has been identified as a central factor in worker power. Feminists maintain that gender mediates manual skill's effect on union membership. Logistic regression …
Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research
This article reviews feminist comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics and the state. The first section examines a range of theoretical approaches to the topic. We then present a variety of methodologies for conducting comparative and transnational research on policy developments. Informed by a number of case studies included in the symposium, we explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, o…
From "Manufacturing Consent" to "Global Ethnography: A Retrospective Examination
A compound feminist organization: Purdue university's council on the status of women
The Phoenix Rises: Tokyo's Origins as a Global City
Tokyo's dizzyingly disarrayed built environment almost defies rendering an interpretation of the city's symbolism. To do so, this article puts forth a geography of power approach that imposes order on the urban grid for analyzing Tokyo, both as a symbolic space and as a terrain of struggle. The global ascendance of Tokyo was made possible by the state's developmental economic projects materialized in massive infrastructure and architecture built …
New Directions, Old Approaches: Labor Studies at the Crossroads
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Eva I1louz. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997. 371 pp. ISBN 0-520-20275-9. $45.00 cloth. Time was in Western culture when marriage was unabashedly an economic transaction between families as much as a social bond between husband and wife. Love was seen, at best, as something that would grow within the marriage over time and, at worst, as a chaotic forc…
Whither Taylorism
Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, £35.00, paper £12.95, xiii+234 pp.Åke Sandberg (ed.), Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production, Hampshire: Avebury, 1995, £49.95, vii+459 pp
Conference on Workers' Culture, September, 1980
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The Internationalization of Production, Intra-Core Relations and the State: A Case Study of IBM and the British Computer Industry
Theories of dependency and development contain several deficiencies which limit their effectiveness for the study of core/core relations. Similarly, frameworks allowing for a study of intra-core relations have not adequately specified the relationship between international and national factors, or their combined effects, in generating inequities between core countries. This case study offers some preliminary observations about the relationship be…
Employee Ownership: Revolution or Rip-off
Stale Roles and Tight Buns: Images of Men in Advertising
Mechanisms of control in the temporary help service industry
Building the Picture: Trading on the Imagery of Production and Design
Doing It the Hard Way: Investigations of Gender and Technology
Part 1 Women, technology and the corporations: sex stratification, technology and organizational change - a longitudinal case study of AT farming out the home - women and the agribusiness technological change and women's role in agribusiness - methods of research in social action. Part 2 Gender and the culture of technology: the culture of engineering - women, workplace and machines engineering the shape of work mathematization of engineering - l…
In the Margins: Flexibility as a Mode of Regulation in the Temporary Help Service Industry
As firms increasingly rely on temporary clerical workers, previous control mechanisms centred in the workplace no longer are sufficient to maintain labor discipline and ensure production quality and uniformity. Through participant observation of four U.S. temporary help service firms and two placement sites, this case study reveals forms of control that differ from those in place at more commonly studied manufacturing enterprises. Temporary help …
The Impact of Skill on Union Membership: Rethinking Gender Differences
A worker's occupation and industry position in the economy primarily determine gender differences in union membership. However, the data reveal that these economic structural factors are not alone responsible. A specific strategy for rethinking the problem examines bargaining power; skill has been identified as a central factor in worker power. Feminists maintain that gender mediates manual skill's effect on union membership. Logistic regression …
Constructing Difference: The Making of Gendered Subcultures in a Japanese Automobile Assembly Plant
Using participant observation, this article explores the social forces giving rise to workers' culture in a Japanese automobile assembly plant. Most theories share the problematic assumption that workers' culture is homogeneous, obscuring the emergence of, and interplay between, subcultures. Subcultures encourage male and female workers to see themselves in opposition to the other and to articulate narrowly constructed gender subjectivities that …
A compound feminist organization: Purdue university's council on the status of women
Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Their Workers
Developing Neo-Fordism: A Comparative Perspective
The current social reorganization of production centers around a move toward greater flexibilization in the workplace and the casualization of the labor force. As was true for prior changes in labor law, the degree and nature of legislative initiatives reflect the strength of competing interests between capital and labor in the policy arena. By detailing both how some states have been historically more or less proactive and how labor has been mor…
Tough Times for Feminism
The "Making" of State Policy: The Case of the National Industrial Recovery Act
This study develops an "historical power struggle" approach to contest leading state theories' interpretations on the making of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The historical power struggle approach stresses the continuity of policy-making and emphasizes two important stages of policy analysis: the historical antecedents that contribute to policy formation, and the legislative process. To go beyond the limits of both class-centered and stat…
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Eva I1louz. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997. 371 pp. ISBN 0-520-20275-9. $45.00 cloth. Time was in Western culture when marriage was unabashedly an economic transaction between families as much as a social bond between husband and wife. Love was seen, at best, as something that would grow within the marriage over time and, at worst, as a chaotic forc…
Gendering Work: Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese Economic Miracle
The story of the Japanese system, held up as a model for economic prosperity and growth, underplays the role of non-standard labour in the narrative of `success'. Our analysis deconstructs the narrative of the Japanese economic miracle to shed light on this almost invisible pillar by tracing the historical development of non-standard employment among women. We find that this form of work constitutes a larger and faster growing share of total empl…
Whither Taylorism
Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, £35.00, paper £12.95, xiii+234 pp.Åke Sandberg (ed.), Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production, Hampshire: Avebury, 1995, £49.95, vii+459 pp
Beyond Patriarchy? Theorising Gender and Class
This paper questions recent attempts by feminists to move theory beyond patriarchy, addressing the charge by Pollert that the concept of patriarchy impoverishes analysis of gender and class. In place of patriarchy, the author advocates an alternative feminist historical materialist analysis of hegemonic practices as the means for excavating gender and class from lived experience. This mode of historical materialist theorising rejects the concept …
The Ambivalent Dynamics of Secretarial `Bitching: Control, Resistance, and the Construction of Identity
We conceptualize bitching as an ambivalent communicative practice that takes place in and contributes to the construction of gendered organizational identities. Through interpretive analyses of in situ bitching among corporate secretaries, we show how the ambivalent dynamics of their collective bitching both maintained stereotypical gender attributes and destabilized the properly professional secretarial identity. By elaborating the ambivalent dy…
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Compromising positions: Emergent neo-Fordisms and embedded gender contracts
This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo‐Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo‐Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post‐Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains institutionalized the terms of a compromise between labo…
From "Manufacturing Consent" to "Global Ethnography: A Retrospective Examination
Atypical' and 'Irregular' Labour in Contemporary Japan
Marcus Rebick, Heidi Gottfried; ‘Atypical’ and ‘Irregular’ Labour in Contemporary Japan, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1 October 2002, P
New Directions, Old Approaches: Labor Studies at the Crossroads
Political science (36 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Economics (26 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (18 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Politics (12 works)