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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.
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© 2014 Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari, Aina Tollefsen
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Räthzel, N., Mulinari, D., Tollefsen, A. (2014). Men’s Jobs — Women’s Work: Women as Industrial Workers. In: Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323057_6
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