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De kallar oss för partners: Betydelsen av maskulinitet för konstruktionen av gig-arbetare som nyliberala subjekt
Swedish Defence University, Institutionen för ledarskap och ledning, Leadership and Command & Control Division Karlstad. (SWE).ORCID iD: 0009-0008-9632-3846
2023 (Swedish)In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, ISSN 1654-5443, E-ISSN 2001-1377, Vol. 44, no 1-2, p. 82-102Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In today’s neoliberal era, the gig economy is rapidly expanding. Gig jobs span various sectors of the labor market and have been both lauded as an opportunity to enter the workforce and criticized for their insecure and precarious nature. While previous research has emphasized the importance of gender in understanding contempo-rary neoliberal development, such as how ideals of femininity are used to interpellate female subjects as malleable workers in developing countries, less attention has been paid to masculinity. This article offers an empirically based analysis of how masculinity is employed to construct subjects within a specific context of gig work situated in the urban space, and the resulting implications for the gig workers’ understanding of themselves and their situation. Drawing on interviews with six gig-working food delivery drivers – all young men – the study sheds light on the precarious positions these workers inhabit while being framed as neoliberal masculine subjects through ideological associations to entrepreneurship. The overarching argument of the article is that the neoliberal structure of the gig-platforms propels exploitative relations in the labor market, masked behind gender associations.

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2023. Vol. 44, no 1-2, p. 82-102
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Gig work, masculinity, precarious work, neoliberalism, interpellation
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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Gender Studies Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-13159DOI: 10.55870/tgv.v44i1-2.13930OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-13159DiVA, id: diva2:1908828
Available from: 2024-10-29 Created: 2024-10-29 Last updated: 2025-09-29Bibliographically approved

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