Social Inequalities: employment, work, gender PDF Print

Social Inequalities: employment, work, gender – 4 ECTS

Manos Spyridakis

Course description

The course focuses on the analysis of the way the concept of social inequality as a process of social differentiation and hierarchical ranking of agents and groups on the basis of economic status, power and social prestige, intersects the dimension of employment, work and gender. Particular emphasis is given on the relationship between the concept of social inequality and the forms of formal and informal employment as well as on the investigation of the mechanism of production and structuring of gender asymmetry and of its practical expressions in the political, social and economic domain of social action.

Objectives

  • Understanding gender inequalities
  • Understand the basic theoretical principles of anthropological and sociological approach to work
  • Understanding inequalities before and after access to employment

Learning outcomes

  • Ability to interpret social inequalities
  • Ability to analyze labor relations
  • Ability of theoretical analysis of forms of work

Structure:

5 three-hour lectures

Students’ Assessment

Written exams

Bibliography

Μ. Σπυριδάκης, 2009, Εξουσία και Παρενόχληση στην Εργασία, Αθήνα: Διόνικος.
Μ. Σπυριδάκης, 2010, Εργασία και Κοινωνική Αναπαραγωγή στη ναυπηγοεπισκευαστική βιομηχανία του Πειραιά, Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης.
M.Spyridakis, 2013, The Liminal Worker. An ethnography of work, unemployment and precariousness in Contemporary Greece, Farnham: Ashgate