Labour Law, Work, and Family
Critical and Comparative Perspectives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 October 2005
- ISBN 9780199287031
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 242x164x26 mm
- Weight 725 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book focuses on the relationship between work and family in the context of debate about labour law and regulation. It considers not just the position of women workers (paid and unpaid) or the current preoccupation of states with developing more family-friendly workplaces but it looks at these issues within the broader context of changes taking place in the world of work as a consequence of globalization.
MoreLong description:
In recent years, gender has emerged as an important focus of attention in discourse in and around labour law. Gender is gradually moving from the margin to the mainstream of labour law debate, particularly with the development of a 'family-friendly' policy agenda. This book consists of a series of essays from an international selection of leading legal scholars exploring the shifting boundary between work and family from a labour law perspective. The object is to assess the global implications for labour law and policy of women's changing role in paid and unpaid work.
The approaches adopted by the contributors' are diverse, both conceptually and geographically, encompassing analyses from Australia, North America, Canada, the UK, Europe and Japan, and including national and supra-national perspectives. Key themes informing the collection as a whole are the re-positioning of unpaid care work as integral to the performance and structure of productive activity; and consideration of the implications of recognizing the interdependence of work and family activities. In this way, the book seeks to develop a central theme from the previously published 'Labour Law in an Era of Globalization' (Conaghan, Fischl and Klare, eds. OUP), as part of an ongoing exploration into the distributive implications of economic and political globalization.
This important and timely collection offers a rigorous interrogation of many of the assumptions behind this new policy agenda...a challenging and thoughtful critique of the 'work/life balance' debate
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Interrogating the Work/Family Divide
I Situating Debate about Work and Family
Work, Family, and the Discipline of Labour Law
Equity and Efficiency: International Institutions and the Work/Family Nexus
II Reimagining the Worker
Work/Family, Australian Labour Law, and the Normative Worker
The Right to Flexibility
ReCommodifying Time: Working Hours of 'Live-in' Domestic Workers
The Family Economy versus the Labour Market (or Housework as a Legal Issue)
Gender and Diversification of Labour Forms in Japan
Poor Women's Work Experiences: Gaps in the 'Work/Family' Discussion
III 'Family-Friendly' Labour Law
Work, Family, and Parenthood: The European Union Agenda
Taking Leave: Work and Family in Australian Law and Policy
A New Gender Contract? Work/Life Balance and Working-Time Flexibility
Work and Family Issues in the Transitional Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary
Issues of Work and Family in Japan
IV Conclusion: A Cautionary Tale
A Woman's World
