Labour law, work, and family
Subtitle: critical and comparative perspectives
By: edited by Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich.
Contributors: Conaghan, Joanne.; Rittich, Kerry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780199287031
Subjects: Labor laws and legislation; Work and family; Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation
Description: "Key themes informing the book as a whole are the re-positioning of unpaid care work as integral to the performance and structure of productive activity and consideration of the implications of recognizing the interdependence of work and family activities. In this way, the book seeks to develop a central theme from the previously published Labour Law in an Era of Globalization (edited by Joanne Conaghan, Richard Michael Fischl and Karl Klare), as part of an ongoing exploration of the distributive implications of economic and political globalization."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : interrogating the work-family divide / Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich; title: Work, family, and the discipline of labour law / Joanne Conaghan; title: Equity or efficiency : international institutions and the work-family nexus / Kerry Rittich; title: Work-family, Australian labour law, and the normative worker / Anna Chapman; title: The right to flexibility / Hugh Collins; title: Recommodifying time : working hours of 'live-in' domestic workers / Guy Mundlak; title: The family economy versus the labour market (or housework as a legal issue) / Maria Rosaria Marella; title: Gender and diversification of labour forms in Japan / Mutsuko Asakura; title: Poor women's work experiences : gaps in the 'work-family' discussion / Lucy Williams; title: Work, family, and parenthood : the European Union agenda / Clare McGlynn; title: Taking leave : work and family in Australian law and policy / Rosemary J. Owens; title: A new gender contract? : work-life balance and working-time flexibility / Judy Fudge; title: Work and family issues in the transitional countries of central and eastern Europe : the case of Hungary / Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky; title: Issues of work and family in Japan / Hiroko Hayashi; title: A woman's world / Richard Michael Fischl.