Gender and the contours of precarious employment
By: edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, and Iain Campbell.
Contributors: Vosko, Leah F.; MacDonald, Martha.; Campbell, Iain.
Series: Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780415492362; 9780415494540; 9780203874424
Subjects: Temporary employment; Sexual division of labor; Women -- Employment
Description: "Precarious employment presents a monumental 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. The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book brings together contributions addressing this issue which include case studies exploring the size, nature, and dynamics of precarious employment in different industrialized countries and chapters examining conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of precarious employment in comparative perspective. The collection aims to yield new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, measuring, and responding, via public policy and other means - such as new forms of union organization and community organizing at multiple scales - to the forces driving labour market insecurity."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : gender and the concept of precarious employment / Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell; title: Canada : gendered precariousness and social reproduction / Leah F. Vosko and Lisa Clark; title: The United States : different sources of precariousness in a mosaic of employment arrangements / Francoise Carré and James Heintz; title: Australia : casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model / Iain Campbell, Gillian Whitehouse and Janeen Baxter; title: Japan : the reproductive bargain and the making of precarious employment / Heidi Gottfried; title: Ireland : precarious employment in the context of the European employment strategy / Julia S. O'Connor; title: The United Kingdom : from flexible employment to vulnerable workers / Jacqueline O'Reilly, John MacInnes, Tizana Nazio and Jose Roche; title: The Netherlands : precarious employment in a context of flexicurity / Susanne D. Burri; title: France : precariousness, gender, and the challenges for labour market policy / Jeanne Fagnani and Marie-Thérèse Letablier; title: Spain : continuity and change in precarious employment / John MacInnes; title: Germany : precarious employment and the rise of mini-jobs / Claudia Weinkopf; title: Sweden : precarious work and precarious unemployment / Inger Jonsson and Anita Nyberg; title: Spatial dimensions of gendered precariousness: challenges for comparative analysis / Martha MacDonald; title: Investigating longitudinal dimensions of precarious employment : conceptual and practical issues / Sylvia Fuller; title: Precarious lives in the new economy : comparative intersectional analysis / Wallace Clement, Sophie Mathieu, Steven Prus and Emre Uckardesler; title: Precarious employment in the health care sector.