‘How could management let this happen?’ Gender, unpaid work and industrial relations in the nonprofit social services sector
研究政府削减开支和外包背景下，非营利机构管理层以减薪保岗位为由引发女性为主的工人罢工，通过两个案例探讨性别化的无酬劳动与工会团结，拓展了女性主义政治经济学和动员理论。
In order to compete in increasingly tight quasi-markets generated by government cutbacks and contracting-out, management in nonprofit agencies have argued that wages and benefits must be reduced or jobs and services will be cut. These arguments have motivated some of the female-majority workers to join and/or organize unions and undertake strike action. Focusing on two case studies exploring restructuring in the highly gendered nonprofit social services in two liberal welfare states (Scotland and Canada), this article explores shifts in industrial relations at the agency level, as well as workforce resistance and union activism. Through the analysis of gendered unpaid work and gendered forms of social and union solidarity, this article extends feminist political economy and mobilization theory. It also suggests convergences at several layers of practice and policy, including private and nonprofit industrial relations cultures, managerialism and the underfunding of contracted-out government services.