Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy by Fudge, Judy; Owens, Rosemary;

The Challenge to Legal Norms

Series: O?ati International Series in Law and Society; Volume 17;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Hart Publishing
Date of Publication 26 April 2006
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9781841136165
Binding Paperback
No. of pages432 pages
Size 234x156x22 mm
Weight 603 g
Language English

Short description:

This collection of original essays by experts in the field explores the relationship between precarious work and gender.

Long description:

Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work - work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labour law and women's work explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, and evaluates the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of legal regulation.The book provides a comparative perspective by furnishing case studies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Quebec, Sweden, the UK, and the US, as well as the international and supranational context through essays that focus on the IMF, the ILO, and the EU. Common themes and concepts thread throughout the essays, which grapple with the legal and public policy challenges posed by women's precarious work.

Part I Introduction

1. Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms
JUDY FUDGE AND ROSEMARY OWENS

Part II Supranational Norms and Discourses about Precarious Work

2. Rights, Risk, and Reward: Governance Norms in the International Order and the Problem of Precarious Work
KERRY RITTICH

3.Gender, Precarious Work, and the International Labour Code: The Ghost in the ILO Closet
LEAH F VOSKO

4. Promoting Precariousness? The Response of EU Employment Policies to Precarious Work
DIAMOND ASHIAGBOR

Part III Working Time and Precarious Work

5. Time to Dream? Flexibility, Families, and the Regulation of Working Time
JOANNE CONAGHAN

6. The Need for a Reduced Work Week in the United States
VICKI SCHULTZ AND ALLISON HOFFMAN

7. Gender and the Legal Regulation of Employment Breaks
CLAIRE KILPATRICK

Part IV A Matter of Status? Protecting Precarious Workers

8.Precarious Norms for Precarious Workers
SANDRA FREDMAN

9. Self-employment, Women, and Precarious Work: The Scope of Labour Protection
JUDY FUDGE

10. The Regulation of Paid Care Work in the Home in Quebec: From the Hearth to the Global Marketplace
STÉPHANIE BERNSTEIN

Part V Old Laws/New Workers

11. The New Face of Employment Discrimination
KATHERINE VW STONE

12. On the Gendered Norm of Standard Employment in a Changing Labour Market
JENNY JULÉN VOTINIUS

13. The Legal Production of Precarious Work
ROSEMARY HUNTER

Part VI The Challenge of Flexibility

14. Flexibility and Security, Working Time, and Work-Family Policies
SUSANNE D BURRI

15. Engendering Flexibility in a World of Precarious Work
ROSEMARY OWENS