How does childbirth impact the career paths of men and women within the same household? To what extent does the unpaid care work related to this event contribute to the downward mobility experienced by women in a highly flexible labour market like Italy? Drawing on feminist and labour market...

European fascist regimes have attached great importance to nationalistic families and designed policies to perpetuate them. Most offered policy packages with interest-free loans repayable through childbirth, along with allowances and tax deductions for large families. Using a...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Social and Policy Directions and Women's Careers; PART 1 Transnational Studies of Careers, Programmes and Policies: Introduction to Part 1; 1 Atlantic Canadian Women University Graduates:...

Ntroduction: homework and gender justice -- Understanding homework and homeworkers -- The invisibilisation of homework -- Extension of labour regulation to homeworkers -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR): improving homeworkers recognition? -- The logic of the supply chain: barriers and...

Time for Solutions!- Front Cover; Time for Solutions!; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Breaking the shackles of gender-related expectations: assessing and acknowledging reality; Chapter 1:...

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of...