Abstract
This chapter, “Feminist Approaches to Forms of Labour”, integrates with the field of feminist peace research in the manner labour markets and their gendered structure reflect upon gendered power imbalances and inequalities. This chapter highlights current research on gendered inequalities in the labour markets regarding patterns, conditions, and incomes, in the effects of precariousness and austerity politics, and in the “double burden” of combining paid and unpaid work, and in labour migration. This overview concludes with the need for both the state and the market to develop a more holistic approach that includes women’s experience and realities, within an intersectional perspective. Further, due to gendered inequalities in the labour market being intersected (how women’s lower wages consequently intersect with their responsibilities of unpaid care, for example), further transdisciplinary research can add to the perspectives of feminist approaches to forms of labour in order to further “the full development of the human person”, a precondition to promote sustainable peace processes.
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