This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.

1. Contingent Labour And The Rewriting Of The Sexual Contract; Lisa AdkinsPART I. WORK READINESS, EMPLOYABILITY AND EXCESSIVE ATTACHMENTS2. Future Investments: Gender Transition As A Socio-Economic Event; Dan Irving3. Self-Appreciation And The Value Of Employability: Integrating Un(Der)Employed Immigrants In Post-Fordist Canada; Kori Allan4. Caught In A Bad Romance? Affective Attachments In Contemporary Academia; Mona MannevuoPART II. REWRITING THE DOMESTIC, NEW FORMS OF WORK, AND ASSET-BASED FUTURES5. Micro-Enterprise As Work-Life 'Magical Solution'; Susan Luckman6. Laptops And Playpens: 'Mommy Bloggers' And Visions Of Household Work; Jessica Taylor7. The Financialisation Of Social Reproduction: Domestic Labour And Promissory Value; Lisa Adkins; Maryanne DeverPART III. DISPOSSESSION, FAMILISM, AND THE LIMITS OF REGULATION8. Negotiating Job Quality In Contracted Out Services: An Israeli Institutional Ethnography; Orly Benjamin9. Sex, Class and CCTV: The Covert Surveillance of Paid Homecare Workers; Lydia Hayes10. The Lie Which Is Not One: Biopolitics In The Migrant Domestic Workers Market In Turkey; Ayse Akalin