Abstract EN:

The working conditions of the working class women is at the core of the present reorganisation of production, through the advancing precariousness and de-industrialization, which articulate the local and the international dimensions of the economy. Based on interviews with working-class women aged 35 and more, who live in rural areas where work in the industrial sector has become rare, in parallel to the expansion of personal services, this dissertation illustrates how gender and locality two fundamentally characterize these economic transformations and the women's access to employment This gender comparison between France and Italy studies the gendered construction of precariousness, analysed in continuity with the relationship to employment and to work, in the space between the market and the family. In this way, the local mutations are reflected in subjective transformations, specifically in the relationship to work activities. Behind gender, the multiplicity and variability of gender conflicts around the division of labour find themselves reduced to silence. Still, these divisions give us the impression that gender imposes itself as-if naturally, from the outside: from the family onto the market, from the market onto the family. The gendered market orchestrates the separations and divisions to which it owns its own legitimacy; in this cacophony, through capitalism, the difficulties in controlling one's own life lead to the suffering and the feelings of uncertainty connected with "becoming the working-class woman.