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Youth, children and families in austere times: change, politics and a new gender contract
Author(s) -
McDowell Linda
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12255
Subject(s) - austerity , inequality , politics , political science , work (physics) , financial crisis , political economy , sociology , gender studies , economics , keynesian economics , law , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , engineering
In this end piece, I comment on and connect the six preceding substantive articles about inequality in the years of austerity following the financial crisis and link their arguments to my own work on youth. I argue that the long decades of deindustrialisation and the more recent post‐crisis austerity climate may be reshaping the old sexual/gender contract that defined the F ordist era.