Making Work More Equal

Damian Grimshaw is Professor of Employment Studies and Director of Research at the Work and Equalities Institute at the University of ManchesterColette Fagan is Professor of Sociology and the Deputy Dean and Vice-Dean for Research at the University of ManchesterGail Hebson is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of ManchesterIsabel Tavora is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Manchester

• 1. A new labour market segmentation approach for analysing inequalities: introduction and overview - Damian Grimshaw, Colette Fagan, Gail Hebson and Isabel TavoraPART I: Conceptual issues: employment standards, networks and worker voice2. Autonomous bargaining in the shadow of the law: from an enabling towards a disabling state? - Gerhard Bosch and Steffen Lehndorff3. The persistence of, and challenges to, societal effects in the context of global competition - Phil Almond4. The networked organisation: implications for jobs and inequality - Rosemary Batt and Eileen Appelbaum5. The challenges for fair voice in liberal market economies - Mick Marchington and Tony Dundon6. Working-time flexibility: diversification and the rise of fragmented time systems - Iain CampbellPART II: International evidence: precarious employment and gender inequality7. Labour segmentation and precariousness in Spain: theories and evidence - Josep Banyuls and Albert Recio8. Subsidiary employment in Italy: can commodification of labour be self-limiting? - Francesca Bettio and Alberto Mazzon9. Job quality: conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis - Agnieszka Piasna, Brendan Burchell, Kirsten Sehnbruch and Nurjk Agloni10. Working longer and harder? A critical assessment of work effort in Britain in European comparison - Alan Felstead and Francis Green11. Plague, patriarchy and ‘girl power’ - Jane Humphries12. Two-child policy in China: a blessing or a curse for the employment of female university graduates? - Fang Lee CookePART III: Convergence, divergence and the importance of regulating for decent work13. The social reproduction of youth labour market inequalities: the effects of gender, households and ethnicity - Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mark Smith and Paola Villa14. Labour policies in a deflationary environment - Annamaria Simonazzi15. Uncertainty and undecidability in the contemporary state: the dualist and complex role of the state in Spanish labour and employment relations - Miguel Martinez Lucio16. Work and care regimes and women’s employment outcomes: Australia, France and Sweden compared - Dominique Anxo, Marian Baird and Christine Erhel17. Minimum wages and the remaking of the wage-setting systems in Greece and the UK - Maria Karamessini and Damian GrimshawIndex