Stepping Stone or Dead End?
Year: 2020
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Introduction: the austerity of domestic labour platformsHow to do more with less?This is, essentially, austerity's onerous question.Its default answer, in turn, has been to defer, download and outsource the burden of being overtasked and cash strapped.As Peck (2012, p 632) notes, 'austerity is ultimately concerned with offloading costs, displacing responsibility; it is about making others pay the price of fiscal retrenchment' (emphasis in original).These 'others' are, frequently, marginalized communities of colour and the low-income urban neighbourhoods they inhabit.Cities, to quote Peck again, are 'where austerity bites' as it 'operates on, and targets anew, an already neoliberalized institutional landscape', but does so in a highly uneven manner (Peck, 2012, pp 629, 631).What Marxist-feminist scholars have referred to as the 'crisis of ught to you by Uva Universiteitsbibliotheek Sz
Source: Bristol University Press eBooks
Author: Niels van Doorn
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3103865414