Neoliberalism, Labour Exploitation

Neoliberalism, Labour Exploitation

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Introduction

As determined, it is vital to consider that the neoliberalism has resulted in the development of new political, cultural, and economic contexts through the process of privatization, deregulation, dismantling and securitization of the welfare state. The changes in neoliberalism and labor exploitation have had an incongruous impact on gender, with specifity on the women. The proponents of neoliberalism have been praised for its benefits in driving a market-driven economy with an extolled virtue of economic individualism as essential elements to freedom.

However, this has resulted in the development of an ostensible gender-blind economy that offers limited opportunities in the empowerment of women. In implementing neoliberalism in different parts of the world, the aspects of women’s rights have been the central focus of different ideological justifications. It is consequently significant to note that in as much as negative repercussions have been noted in regards to neoliberal economic changes, these disruptions in the social order has the capacity to offer women avenues of collective mobilizations directed towards political transformation.

Thesis;

In consideration of the fact that neoliberalism promotes the element of rational individuals exercising their free will in eroding the social democracy, it is imperative to understand how this affects women and how it has widened the race/class divide among this gender.

Neoliberalism has created a new political, economic, and cultural context through deregulation, privatization, securitization, and the dismantling of the welfare state. These changes have had a contradictory impact on women. Proponents of neoliberalism have praised the benefits of an unfettered, market-driven economy, extolled the virtues of personal choice and economic individualism as the keys to freedom, and argued that these ostensibly gender-blind economic structures offer opportunities for the agency and empowerment of women. Women’s human rights have been part of the discursive and ideological justification for the implementation of neoliberalism in many parts of the world. Some women, especially economically better-off, educated women have benefitted from the dismantling of the old patriarchal order. However, as many authors have argued, because neoliberalism promotes the idea of a rational individual exercising free will while eroding social democracy, it has made life harder for most women and has widened the race/class divide among women. I suggest that, despite the many negative repercussions of neoliberal economic changes, these dramatic disruptions of the social order may offer avenues for poor women’s collective mobilization and progressive political transformation.