Managing the Margins

Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

Leah F. Vosko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-957509-1 (ISBN)

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This book probes national and international regulatory responses to the much-discussed shift from full-time permanent jobs towards part-time, temporary and self-employment. It analyzes their implications for workers most often precariously employed, particularly women and migrants, using illustrations from Australia, the US, Canada, and EU states.

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are applied to new labour market realities, leaving the most precarious forms of employment intact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for those most likely to be at the margins, particularly women and migrant workers.

Managing the Margins provides a rigorous analysis drawing on original qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analyzing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries.

Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy at York University, where she teaches comparative political economy, public policy, and women and politics. She is the author of Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship (University of Toronto Press, 2000), editor of Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, and co-author of Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006 and 2005 respectively).

Introduction ; 1. The Male Breadwinner/Female Caregiver Gender Contract in Early National and International Labour Regulation ; 2. The Construction and Consolidation of the Standard Employment Relationship in International Labour Regulation ; 3. The Partial Eclipse of the SER and the Dynamics of SER-Centrism in International Labour Regulations ; 4. Regulating Part-time Employment: Equal Treatment and its Limits ; 5. Regulating Temporary Employment: Equal Treatment, Qualified ; 6. Self-Employment and the Regulation of the Employment Relationship: From Equal Treatment to Effective Protection ; 7. Alternatives to the SER ; Appendices and Bibliographies

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.2011
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-957509-6 / 0199575096
ISBN-13	978-0-19-957509-1 / 9780199575091
Zustand	Neuware