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The Power of Professionalization

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This chapter answers and discusses the relationships between the three theoretical questions which the research for this book has raised. (1) How do the power relations between managerial professionalism and occupational professionalism, originally traced by Evetts, reflect a gendered power struggle for and against the right to care? (2) How does the caring-self constituted within the outsourcing of social services enter the historical struggle for and against appropriate remuneration for skilled work in particular when meanings related to ‘doing gender’ downplay the political nature of caring voices? (3) How do claims for recognition raised by those involved in SACO enter the struggle over (non-gendered) social citizenship based on entitlement for both redistribution, recognition and representation? Following the theoretical implications some practical implications are offered primarily to do with reinforcing transparency and professionalization.

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Benjamin, O. (2016). The Power of Professionalization. In: Gendering Israel's Outsourcing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40727-2_7

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