Il lavoro delle relazioni, ma quali? Effetti di reciprocità in coppie dual precarious knowledge worker

The article discusses how the side bet is discursively constructed the side bet (Becker, 1960) of precarious knowledge workers, which consists of a series of mechanisms generating both use values and workers subjectivities. In the free work regime (Beverungen et al., 2013) in fact the lines of demarcation, not only the physical and temporal ones but also those related to the sense making, between productive and reproductive spheres, vanish. Towards this direction, the article, through the analysis of the discursive practices adopted by respondents, investigates the reciprocal links, in Simmel’s terms, which inevitably are working at the couple level between the productive and reproductive practices. These practices constrain and in turn are bound by social structures, primarily that of gender. The analysis sheds light on the contradictions underlying these forms of reciprocity and, from a critical point of view, observes the implications along the analytical dimensions of dis-alienation (Fisher, 2012) and self-alienation (Costas and Fleming, 2009).

Parole chiave:Free work, dis-alienazione, auto-alienazione, knowledge worker

• Fare marcia indietro. Barriere e risorse nella costruzione dei percorsi lavorativi desiderati dalle donne Anna Carreri, in SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO 148/2017 pp.75
  DOI: 10.3280/SL2017-148005

Anna Carreri, Il lavoro delle relazioni, ma quali? Effetti di reciprocità in coppie dual precarious knowledge worker in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 145/2017, pp 94-111, DOI: 10.3280/SL2017-145006