Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism - Lean in Action

This book explores how Lean - a global management doctrine - operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and affective environments of health and social care services.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical toolbox and methodological approaches; 3. Gender in biocapitalism; 4. Temporal architecture of Leaned welfare service work; 5. Lean expertise as situated knowledge in Lean translations; 6. Lean-in-the-making: opening and closing black boxes in Lean training; 7. (Un)doing happy Lean: affective configurations of humour and resistance in Lean training; 8. Affective encounters in welfare service work; 9. Lean as a radical attempt to reorganise welfare service work

About the author

Eeva Jokinen is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland.
Helena Hirvonen, PhD, Adjunct Professor, is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland.
Laura Mankki (MSocSc) is a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.
Timo Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Iiris Lehto is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.

Summary

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and affective environments of health and social care services.

Product details

• Authors: Timo Aho, Helena Hirvonen, Hirvonen Helena, Eeva Jokinen, Eeva (University of Eastern Finland Jokinen, Iiris Lehto, Laura Mankki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032314471
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231447-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social welfare & social services, Organizational theory & behaviour, Public health & preventive medicine, Social welfare and social services, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: work & labour, Medical administration & management, Organizational theory and behaviour, Public health and preventive medicine, Sociology: work and labour, Medical administration and management