GENDERED CONTRADICTIONS: MANAGERS AND WOMEN WORKERS IN SELF-MANAGED TEAMS Chapter

abstract

• Organizational literatures stress the empowering effects of worker participation programs. The case of a Mexican garment factory is used to examine the contradictory location of women in self-managed teams. While self-managed teams require independent and assertive workers, women workers are hired specifically for their docility. I argue that managers provide the tools and mechanisms for workers to be autonomous decision-makers, while at the same time they gender teams in ways that assure continued female disadvantage. Placed in this contradictory location, women workers both reproduce and resist gender subordination by carving out spaces of independent action, using the language of traditional womanhood.

authors

• Plankey Videla, Nancy

author list (cited authors)

• Videla, N. P.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Videla, Nancy Plankey

Book Title

• WORKER PARTICIPATION : CURRENT RESEARCH AND FUTURE TRENDS

publication date

• January 2006

publisher

• Emerald  Publisher

published in

• n0277-2833ISSN  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 44 Human Society
• 4405 Gender Studies
• 5 Gender Equality

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0277-2833(06)16004-5

start page

• 85

end page

• 116

volume

• 16

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-2833(06)16004-5

user-defined tag

• 5 Gender Equality