Managing the margins : gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment /

Managing the margins : gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment /

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Author / Creator:Vosko, Leah F.
Imprint:Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:xvii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Temporary employment.
Part-time employment.
Part-time employment -- Law and legislation.
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation.
Women -- Employment.
Foreign workers.
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation.
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Foreign workers.
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Part-time employment.
Part-time employment -- Law and legislation.
Temporary employment.
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation.
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7978561
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ISBN:9780199574810 (alk. paper)
0199574812 (alk. paper)
9780199575091 (pbk.)
0199575096 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-289) and index.
Summary:"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 workers most likely to be at the margins, particularly women and migrants, using illustrations from Australia, the United States, and Canada, as well as member states of the European Union." "Managing the Margins provides a rigorous analysis of national and international regulatory approaches, drawing on original qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analysing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Precarious Employment
  • An Integrated Analysis
  • The Normative Model of Employment
  • The Gender Contract
  • Citizenship Boundaries
  • Regulations at Different Scales
  • A Multi-Method Approach
  • The Book in Brief
  • 1. Forging a Gender Contract in Early National and International Labour Regulation
  • Select National Developments, 1830s-1930s
  • Hours and Night Work
  • Wages
  • Dangerous Substances and Occupations
  • Maternity Protection
  • International Developments, 1870s-1919
  • Consensus and Contestation around Protecting Women, 1878-1913
  • The Consolidation of Female Caregiving and the Birth of the ILO, 1919
  • Preparing the Ground for the SER
  • 2. Constructing and Consolidating the Standard Employment Relationship in International Labour Regulation
  • Constructing the Pillars of the SER: The Interwar and Immediate Postwar Years
  • The Bilateral Employment Relationship
  • Standardized Working Time
  • Continuous Employment
  • Reinforcing the Pillars: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
  • Migrant Work
  • Stripping the SER of its Exclusions: The Era of Formal Equality
  • Equal Remuneration, Maternity, and Social Security
  • Non-Discrimination
  • The Resilience of the Baseline
  • 3. The Partial Eclipse of the SER and the Dynamics of SER-Centrism in International Labour Regulations
  • A Portrait of the SER in Australia, Canada, the EU 15, and the United States, 1980s-2006
  • The Declining Significance of Full-Time Permanent Employment
  • The Expansion of Non-Standard Employment
  • SER-Centrism at the Margins of Late-Capitalist Labour Markets
  • Continuing Adjustments to the Crumbling Gender Contract, 1975-1990
  • Consolidating a Multi-Tiered Framework for Migrant Workers' Protection
  • The Social Declaration (1998) and 'Decent Work' (1999, 2008)
  • Regulating Part-Time, Fixed-Term, Temporary Agency Work, and Self-Employment
  • 4. Regulating Part-Time Employment: Equal Treatment and its Limits
  • The Deterioration of Standardized Working Time
  • SER-Centric Responses to Precariousness in Part-Time Employment: The ILO Convention on Part-Time Work (1994)
  • Regulating Part-Time Employment in Australia
  • The Management of the Margins of the Australian Labour Market
  • Dynamics of Part-Time Casual Employment in Australia: Gendered Precariousness
  • Strategies for Limiting Precariousness amongst Part-Time Workers in Australia
  • 'Work Choices'
  • The Australian Labor Party: Working with Work Choices
  • Lessons from Australia and Alternative Possibilities
  • 5. Regulating Temporary Employment: Equal Treatment, Qualified
  • The Erosion of the Open-Ended Employment Relationship
  • SER-Centric Responses to Precariousness in Temporary Employment in the EU
  • European Employment Policy Framing Directives on Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Work
  • The EU Directive on Fixed-Term Work (1999)
  • Regulating Temporary Agency Work in the EU 15
  • National Regulations in the EU 15, Mid-197Os-Early 2000s
  • Contemporary Dynamics of Temporary Agency Work in the EU 15
  • EU-Level Attempts at Regulating Temporary Agency Work, 2000-2008
  • The Directive on Temporary Agency Work (2008)
  • Lessons from the EU 15 and Alternative Possibilities
  • 6. Self-Employment and the Regulation of the Employment Relationship: From Equal Treatment to Effective Protection
  • The Destabilization of the Employment Relationship at the Crux of the SER
  • SER-Centric Responses to Precariousness in Work for Remuneration at Cusp of the Employment Relationship: ILO Actions, 1990-2006
  • The ILO Recommendation on the Employment Relationship (2006)
  • Approaches to Regulating Self-Employment in Industrialized Market Economy Countries
  • Maximizing Enterprise Work: The Australian Case
  • Promoting Entrepreneurship and Protecting Economically Dependent Workers: EU Approaches
  • Lessons from Industrialized Market Economy Countries and Alternative Possibilities
  • 7. Alternatives to the SER
  • Why there is No Returning to the SER
  • A Tiered SER
  • A 'Flexible SER'
  • 'Beyond Employment'
  • Towards an Alternative Imaginary
  • Appendix A. Table of Selected International Labour Regulations, 1906-2008
  • Appendix B. List of International Labour Conferences Observed
  • Appendix C. List of Interviews
  • Appendix D. Data Sources and Notes for Statistical Figures and Tables
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Index

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