POLS 4185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Reproduction, Precarity, Neoliberalism
19 Jun 2018
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Gender and social reproduction
Social reproduction: the activities and attitudes, behaviour and emotions,
responsibilities and relationships directly involved in the maintenance of life on a
daily basis, and intergenerationally
Production vs. social reproduction
Gendered division of labour
Help us view old distinctions in new ways – problematizing what has not been
questioned
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism as a mechanism to reinstitute capitalist disciplinary mechanisms
Smaller government ideology of neoliberalism
The 1960s radicalism as a problem to be fixed
(Possibilities of) unemployment as a disciplinary mechanism: “rising
unemployment was very desirable way of reducing the strength of the working
class…”
Precarity as a core directive
Dispossession and Alienation
Slash of social programs – deepening market dependency
A law and order regime
Culture and norms against indigence
Safe street act in Ontario
Increase in prisons and police budgets
Imprisonment as a tool to manage radicalized poor
Global migrants
Free market vs. harsh states
Radicalized and gendered patterns of inequality
Public Policy
Cuts in social benefits (including EI, training expenses)
(Un)Employment insurance: working hours to qualify
Workfare
Ontario works role in placing downward pressure on the labour market (3) –
strong evidence of an instrumental reconfiguration of social assistance policy
designed to cultivate precariousness
Childcare
Public policy remedies not having the capacity to halt precariousness
Workfare
Keynesian – neoliberalism
Behaviour and cultural capital
Assumptions
Contexts: pressure to redue welfare costs + the neoliberal disciplining of workers
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Document Summary
Social reproduction: the activities and attitudes, behaviour and emotions, responsibilities and relationships directly involved in the maintenance of life on a daily basis, and intergenerationally. Help us view old distinctions in new ways problematizing what has not been questioned. Neoliberalism as a mechanism to reinstitute capitalist disciplinary mechanisms. The 1960s radicalism as a problem to be fixed (possibilities of) unemployment as a disciplinary mechanism: rising unemployment was very desirable way of reducing the strength of the working class . Slash of social programs deepening market dependency. Imprisonment as a tool to manage radicalized poor. Cuts in social benefits (including ei, training expenses) (un)employment insurance: working hours to qualify. Ontario works role in placing downward pressure on the labour market (3) strong evidence of an instrumental reconfiguration of social assistance policy designed to cultivate precariousness. Public policy remedies not having the capacity to halt precariousness. Contexts: pressure to redue welfare costs + the neoliberal disciplining of workers.
