Gender and the contours of precarious employment

edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, and Iain Campbell

Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. This collection aims to yield new ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity

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Year of publication:	c2009
Other Persons:	Campbell, Iain (contributor) ; Vosko, Leah F. (contributor) ; MacDonald, Martha (contributor)
Publisher:	New York, NY : Routledge
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung \| Labour market discrimination \| Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Women workers \| Geschlechterdiskriminierung \| Gender discrimination \| Leiharbeit \| Temporary agency work \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Geschlecht \| Gender
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (280 p)
Series:	Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics Ser. Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 8
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Gender and the concept of precarious employment; 2 Canada: Gendered precariousness and social reproduction; 3 The United States: Different sources of precariousness in a mosaic of employment arrangements; 4 Australia: Casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model; 5 Japan: The reproductive bargain and the making of precarious employment; 6 Ireland: Precarious employment in the context of the European Employment Strategy 7 The United Kingdom: From flexible employment to vulnerable workers8 The Netherlands: Precarious employment in a context of flexicurity; 9 France: Precariousness, gender and the challenges for labour market policy; 10 Spain: Continuity and change in precarious employment; 11 Germany: Precarious employment and the rise of mini-jobs; 12 Sweden: Precarious work and precarious unemployment; 13 Spatial dimensions of gendered precariousness: Challenges for comparative analysis; 14 Investigating longitudinal dimensions of precarious employment: Conceptual and practical issues 15 Precarious lives in the new economy: Comparative intersectional analysis16 Precarious employment in the health-care sector; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-0-415-49236-2 ; 978-0-415-49454-0 ; 978-0-203-87442-4 ; 978-0-415-49236-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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