Men’s Jobs — Women’s Work: Women as Industrial Workers

Abstract

Our first point of departure is that TNCs are gendered and that gender as a symbol and as a social relation is an important factor in shaping the relationship within the TNCs’ specific global-localities. Our second point of departure is that gender ideologies and gender divisions of labour are coordinates through which managements can regulate the workforce, aiming to construct a specific kind of subject: a gendered Volvo worker. But they are also the coordinates through which workers create themselves in relation to others.