Families, care-giving and paid work
Subtitle: challenging labour law in the 21st century
By: edited by Nicole Busby, Grace James
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northamptom, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781849802628
Subjects: Government policy; Labor laws and legislation; Work-life balance; Work and family; Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf; Legal status, laws; Caregivers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconciling employment and family care-giving : a gender analysis of current challenges and future directions for UK policy / Suzi Macpherson; title: Atypical working in Europe and the impact on work-family reconciliation / Clare Lyonette; title: Is there a fundamental right to reconcile work and family life in the EU? / Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella; title: The rights and realities of balancing work and family life in New Zealand / Annick Masselot; title: Law's response to the reconciliation of work and care : the Australian case / Sara Charlesworth; title: Parental leave rights in Italy : reconciling gender ideologies with the demands of Europeanization / Roberta Guerrina; title: Comparative lessons on work-family conflict : Swedish parental leave versus American parental leave / Michelle Weldon-Johns; title: Care-giving and reasonable adjustment in the UK / Rachel Horton; title: Reconciling care-giving and work in Ireland : the contribution of protection against family status discrimination / Olivia Smith; title: Child welfare and work-family reconciliation policies : lessons from family law / Grace James and Thérèse Callus; title: Unpaid care-giving and paid work within a rights framework : towards reconciliation? / Nicole Busby.