Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy : The Challenge to Legal Norms.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (432 pages)
- Oņati International Series in Law and Society Series .
- Oņati International Series in Law and Society Series .
Half Title -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes, Statutory Instruments, Guidelines and International Treaties and Conventions -- Table of Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms -- GLOBALISATION AND THE NEW ECONOMY -- LEGAL NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- Part II: Supranational Norms and Discources about Precarious Work -- 2. Rights, Risk, and Reward: Governance Norms in the International Order and the Problem of Precarious Work -- INTRODUCTION -- GOOD GOVERNANCE AND THE NORMALISATION OFPRECARIOUS WORK -- DIFFUSING GOOD GOVERNANCE NORMS -- CONCLUSION -- 3. Gender, Precarious Work, and the International Labour Code: The Ghost in the ILO Closet -- THE OLD MALE NORM IN THE NEW INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CODE -- NEW INSTRUMENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CODE:REGULATING PRECARIOUS WORK -- RECONFIGURING TIME, PLACE, AND STATUS:PITFALLS OF AN EQUAL-TREATMENT APPROACH -- CONCLUSION -- 4. Promoting Precariousness? The Response of EU Employment Policies to Precarious Work -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING AND MEASURING PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENTIN THE EU -- THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY AND WOMEN'S PRECARIOUS WORK -- WHAT DOES THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMPLOYMENT POLICY AGENDA MEAN FOR POLICIES ON PRECARIOUS WORK? -- REGULATING OR REGULARISING PRECARIOUS WORK -- CONCLUSIONS: SOFT REGULATION AND PRECARIOUS WORK -- Part III: Working Time and Precarious Work -- 5. Time to Dream? Flexibility, Families, and the Regulation of Working Time -- INTRODUCTION -- LORD DENNING ON (GENDER), WORK AND TIME -- EP THOMPSON ON (GENDER) WORK AND TIME -- THE LEGAL REGULATION OF WORKING TIME IN BRITAIN -- CONCLUSION -- 6. The Need for a Reduced Workweek in the United States. INTRODUCTION -- FEMINIST APPROACHES TO WORKING TIME IN THE UNITEDSTATES -- THE NEED FOR A REDUCED WORKWEEK -- PROBLEMS ACTUALISING A REDUCED WORKWEEK IN THE FACE OF GLOBALISATION AND NEW LIBERALISM -- CONCLUSION -- 7. Gender and the Legal Regulation of Employment Breaks -- WHAT IS AN EMPLOYMENT BREAK? -- TWO WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT EMPLOYMENT BREAKS -- THE LEGAL RELEVANCE OF CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT:CONTRACTUAL AND STATUTORY CONTINUITY -- STATUTORY LEAVE PERIODS AND CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT -- EMPLOYER FAMILY LEAVE SCHEMES AND CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT -- PRECARIOUS WORKING LIVES AND FAMILY BREAKS -- Part IV: A Matter of Status? Protecting Precarious Workers -- 8. Precarious Norms for Precarious Workers -- WOMEN ON THE MARGINS: PRECARIOUS WORK AND GENDER -- PRECARIOUS NORMS: HISTORY AND CONTEXT -- THE ROLE OF THE COURTS -- EQUALITY AND PRECARIOUS WORKERS -- MINIMUM WAGE AND MAXIMUM WORKING TIME -- CONCLUSION -- 9. Self-employment, Women, and Precarious Work: The Scope of Labour Protection -- INTRODUCTION -- A TYPOLOGY OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT -- THE ILO AND THE SCOPE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP -- WOMEN AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA -- THE LEGAL BOUNDARY OF LABOUR PROTECTION -- CONCLUSION -- 10. The Regulation of Paid Care Work in the Home in Quebec: From the Hearth to the Global Marketplace -- INTRODUCTION -- PORTRAYING PAID CARE WORK IN THE HOME -- THE WORK/CARE DEBATE -- (DE)COMPARTMENTALISING CARE WORK:THE QUEBEC LABOUR STANDARDS ACT -- LEGAL FICTION: CARE WORKERS AS BUSINESSWOMEN -- GLOBALISATION AND REDEFINING COMMODIFICATION -- CONCLUSION -- Part V: Old Laws/New Workers -- 11. The New Face of Employment Discrimination -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NEW EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP -- THE CHANGING NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION -- THE NATURE OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE BOUNDARY-LESS WORKPLACE -- REDRESSING DISCRIMINATION IN THE NEW WORKPLACE -- CONCLUSION. 12. On the Gendered Norm of Standard Employment in a Changing Labour Market -- INTRODUCTION -- NON-STANDARD EMPLOYMENT IS INSECURE -- A CLOSER LOOK AT FIXED-TERM EMPLOYMENT -- THE NORM OF THE STANDARD EMPLOYEE IS NOT GENDER-NEUTRAL -- CHANGED WORKING LIFE-A NEW GENDER DIVISION -- 13. The Legal Production of Precarious Work -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INCIDENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PRECARIOUS WORK -- LEGAL REGULATION ENCOURAGING PRECARIOUS WORK ARRANGEMENTS -- COUNTERVAILING MEASURES-(LIMITED) PROTECTION FOR PRECARIOUS WORKERS -- CONCLUSION -- Part VI: The Challenge of Flexibility -- 14. Flexibility and Security, Working Time, and Work-Family Policies -- INTRODUCTION -- EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN THE NETHERLANDS -- NON-STANDARD FORMS OF EMPLOYMENT -- LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS -- DIFFERENTIATION OF WORKING TIME DURING LIFETIME -- ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS -- 15. Engendering Flexibility in a World of Precarious Work -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATING FLEXIBILITY AT WORK -- THE FLEXIBILITY AGENDA -- TRANSFORMING PRECARIOUS WORK -- FLEXIBILITY WITH EQUALITY -- FLEXIBILITY WITH SECURITY -- FLEXIBLE STANDARDS -- PRECARIOUS WORK AND FLEXIBILITY:CHALLENGING LEGAL NORMS? -- References -- Index.
This collection of original essays by experts in the field explores the relationship between precarious work and gender.
9781847312150
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Congresses. Labor contract -- Economic aspects -- Congresses. Temporary employment -- Law and legislation -- Congresses. Flextime -- Law and legislation -- Congresses. Precarious employment relationships.