Gendering Israel's Outsourcing

Orly Benjamin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Sciences Faculty Poverty Research Unit at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has published extensively on job insecurity and services outsourcing in Israel and co-edited a special issue on gender and government procurement. Her book Feminism, Family and Identity in Israel was published in 2011.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Gendering Outsourcing.- Chapter 2 Back to Doing Gender?.- Chapter 3 The Emotional Politics of Skill Recognition.- Chapter 4 Managerial Arm Wrestling.- Chapter 5 Claiming Skill Recognition.- Chapter 6 Bridging an Alternative.- Chapter 7 Discussion: Dis/entitlement.

"Reading Benjamin's book reminds us of the real need for better integration between social policy scholars and public policy and administration scholars, who are often telling the same stories in different languages. Feminists in general and researchers studying the role of women in the labour market in particular would benefit from chapters ... in which the author proposes a political strategy she defines as a bridge between social forces that can promote services that are both feminist and democratic ... ." (Nissim Cohen, Public Administration, 2017)

“Reading Benjamin’s book reminds us of the real need for better integration between social policy scholars and public policy and administration scholars, who are often telling the same stories in different languages. Feminists in general and researchers studying the role of women in the labour market in particular would benefit from chapters … in which the author proposes a political strategy she defines as a bridge between social forces that can promote services that are both feminist and democratic … .” (Nissim Cohen, Public Administration, 2017)