Managing the Margins

Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvLeah F. Vosko

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This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are applied to new labour market realities, leaving the most precarious forms of employment intact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for those most likely to be at the margins, particularly women and migrant workers. Managing the Margins provides a rigorous analysis drawing on original qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analyzing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-03-03
Mått165 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt566 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor330
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199575091

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Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy at York University, where she teaches comparative political economy, public policy, and women and politics. She is the author of Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship (University of Toronto Press, 2000), editor of Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, and co-author of Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006 and 2005 respectively).

Introduction ; 1. The Male Breadwinner/Female Caregiver Gender Contract in Early National and International Labour Regulation ; 2. The Construction and Consolidation of the Standard Employment Relationship in International Labour Regulation ; 3. The Partial Eclipse of the SER and the Dynamics of SER-Centrism in International Labour Regulations ; 4. Regulating Part-time Employment: Equal Treatment and its Limits ; 5. Regulating Temporary Employment: Equal Treatment, Qualified ; 6. Self-Employment and the Regulation of the Employment Relationship: From Equal Treatment to Effective Protection ; 7. Alternatives to the SER ; Appendices and Bibliographies