Unequal Recognition? "Work" and "Love" in the Context of Life of Precarious Employees

在过去的几年里，不稳定的工作已经成为科学和公共辩论中的一个非常重要的话题。现有的关于不稳定的社会学研究几乎完全集中在个人和有偿工作上，而没有考虑到其更广泛的社会后果。虽然不稳定的工作并不局限于低收入的职业，但与认知度的降低密切相关。尽管这种现象持续存在，但不稳定的就业与缺乏认可度之间的关系在社会学上几乎没有受到关注，就像随之而来的对生活背景和性别关系的影响问题一样。鉴于这些空白，拟议的项目旨在开发一种基于认可和性别理论的不稳定就业分析，其中考虑到参与者的生活背景。具体地说，该项目审查了相互作用的做法，通过这些做法，有关系的和没有关系的不稳定的工人都获得了承认，并复制了性别不平等。通过结合关于工作和家庭的社会学研究、关于不稳定就业的研究以及基于Axel Honneth和Judith Butler的工作的认可理论，这项研究将调查不稳定的工作和亲密的夫妇关系、他们的家庭背景、其他生活领域、性别观念和性别关系之间的相互影响。该项目将进行夫妇访谈和一对一访谈，采用严格的重建和主体间逻辑研究，调查被认可的机会以及工作和生活之间的关系。不稳定员工的爱情和(性别)不平等。这项研究旨在回答以下问题：不稳定的员工如何在工作领域和亲密关系中获得认可？他们是如何感受到获得认可的？工作的不稳定会在多大程度上延伸到生活背景和亲密(夫妻)关系中？或者，不稳定的员工会在多大程度上利用在亲密(夫妻)关系中获得的认可来弥补工作中的缺失？单身人士如何应对，他们无法获得对情侣关系的基于爱情的认可？不稳定的就业是否正在改变传统的性别观念、男子气概的形象和性别关系？如果是这样的话，是如何做到的呢？

Over the past several years, precarious work has become a topic of great importance in both scientific and public debates. The existent sociological research on precariousness has focused almost exclusively on individuals and paid work, without taking into account its more broad-reaching social consequences. Though precarious work is not limited to low income occupations, but is closely related to reduced recognition. Though a persistent phenomenon, this correlation between precarious employment and a lack of recognition has received little sociological attention, as is the case with the concomitant issues of the impact on life context and gender relations.In light of these lacunae, the proposed project aims to develop a recognition- and gender theory-based analysis of precarious employment that takes into account the life context of those involved. Concretely, the project examines the interactive practices through which precarious workers both with and without relationship partners achieve recognition and reproduce gender inequalities. By combining sociological research on work and family, studies of precarious employment and theories on recognition based on the work of Axel Honneth und Judith Butler, the study will investigate the interplay of precarious work and intimate couple relationships, the context of their household, other areas of life, gender concept and gender relations. The project will conduct both interviews with couples and one-on-one interviews that employ a strictly reconstructive and intersubjective logic of research to investigate the chances of recognition and the relationships among work, life resp. love, and (gender) inequalities for precarious employees.The research will aim to answer the following questions: How do precarious workers gain recognition in the work sphere and in their intimate relationship? How do they experience the gained recognition? To what degree does the precariousness of work extend into the context of life and into intimate (couple) relationships? Or, alternatively, to what degree do precarious workers use the recognition gained in intimate (couple) relationships to compensate for its absence at work? How do singles cope, who do not have access to the love-based recognition of a couple relationship? Is precarious employment changing traditional gender concepts, images of masculinity, and gender relations? And, if so, then how?