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Author(s) -
Anna Bengtsson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
socialvetenskaplig tidskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2003-5624
pISSN - 1104-1420
DOI - 10.3384/svt.2020.27.3-4.3667
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , power (physics) , welfare , inequality , sociology , social welfare , political science , public relations , law , ecology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
This article focuses on how gendered power operates in the neoliberal welfare regime and the circumstances created for welfare professionals in Sweden to act politically. Based on interviews with key informants in two cases of collective resistance among midwives and social workers, attention is focused on the practices of power used by politicians and managers. Drawing on resistance theory and concepts developed through previous research on equality, the result shows how fear is created and used and how distance is upheld through different techniques of power, which serve to prevent both collective mobilization and avoid these issues of deteriorated working conditions and care being politicized in terms of inequality