Orly Benjamin, a professor of sociology at Bar-Ilan University, discusses her new book Gendering Israel's Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees' Caring Skills, which offers a feminist critique of socioeconomic and political processes that have affected the most precarious sectors of the Israeli labor market in recent decades.

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Down and Out in Be'er Sheba and Afula