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Marginalized Masculinities and Exclusion in the New Low-Skill Service Sector in Sweden
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US). Malmö högskola, Centre for Work Life and Evaluation Studies (CTA). Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0018-8720
2017 (English)In: Marginalized Masculinities: Contexts, Continuities and Change / [ed] Chris Haywood, Thomas Johansson, Routledge, 2017, p. 67-82Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter analyses low-skill service jobs in Sweden from a gender perspective. It then examines marginalization of masculinity by studying how the transformation from an industrial economy to a service- and knowledge-based economy has changed the labour market. Masculine work has been socially constructed as being dangerous, hard, dirty and sweaty, all of which has created a strong working identity. Low-skill service jobs include lower wages and more insecure employment contracts than the manual, industrial work that was available previously; however, it is often the only employment available for both men and for women. Dual labour market theory describes the labour market as dual and segmented. To analyse the gendered labour market from this theoretical perspective gives valuable contribution to understanding the polarized service sector. The data from Statistics Sweden show that male participation in high-touch jobs has actually increased in the country, both in absolute terms and in relation to the increase with its female counterpart. 

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Routledge, 2017. p. 67-82
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Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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Marginalized, masculinity, gender, exclusion, low-skilled service sector
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Gender Studies Work Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-9414DOI: 10.4324/9781315229300-5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85020985093Local ID: 23126ISBN: 9780415347570 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-9414DiVA, id: diva2:1406446
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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