A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL DUMPING PRACTICES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
Keywords:
social dumping, neoliberal capitalism, gender at work, posting of workers, offshoring, construction industry, textile industry, ILOAbstract
The present study sets out to explore two highly gendered, seemingly contrasting industries, construction and textile, with workforces that showcase distinct issues yet can be brought together by their mistreatment in the name of profit through labour made cheap by social dumping practices. Social dumping undertakings and the gender problematisation will have their basis on a theoretical framework and will be exemplified by relevant case studies while tackling issues of masculine norms that can both represent a glass escalator and be toxicly capitalised on and the debatable notions of both emancipation and exploitation in the development of employment conditions and advancement opportunities for women - showing that the flexibility of labour longed for by the neoliberal and capitalist principles is disproportionately carried by the more vulnerable.
