Lisa Adkins is BHP Billiton Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor (2015-19). She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.

Maryanne Dever is Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.

What new forms of work does contemporary capitalism demand of many women and how does this work bind women to the logics of capitalist accumulation? In addressing these questions this book opens out new vistas for critical and feminist labour studies in the twenty-first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Studies.

Introduction: Gender and Labour in New Times: An Introduction 1. The Feminisation of Finance: Gender, Labour and the Limits of Inclusion Fiona Allon 2. The Sexual Contract, Youth, Masculinity and the Uncertain Promise of Waged Work in Austerity Britain 3. Housework, Wages and Money: The Category of the Female Principal Breadwinner in Financial Capitalism 4. Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-Life Balance Law 5. Feminism and the Technological Age