TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vosko,Leah F.
AU  - MacDonald,Martha
AU  - Campbell,Iain
TI  - Gender and the contours of precarious employment
T2  - Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics
SN  - 9780415492362
AV  - HD5854 .G46 2009eb
U1  - 331.4/25729 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Temporary employment
KW  - Sexual division of labor
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Precarious employment
KW  - Contract system (Labor)
KW  - Travail temporaire
KW  - Travail précaire
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : gender and the concept of precarious employment / Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell -- Canada : gendered precariousness and social reproduction / Leah F. Vosko and Lisa Clark -- The United States : different sources of precariousness in a mosaic of employment arrangements / Francoise Carré and James Heintz -- Australia : casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model / Iain Campbell, Gillian Whitehouse and Janeen Baxter -- Japan : the reproductive bargain and the making of precarious employment / Heidi Gottfried -- Ireland : precarious employment in the context of the European employment strategy / Julia S. O'Connor -- The United Kingdom : from flexible employment to vulnerable workers / Jacqueline O'Reilly, John MacInnes, Tizana Nazio and Jose Roche -- The Netherlands : precarious employment in a context of flexicurity / Susanne D. Burri -- France : precariousness, gender, and the challenges for labour market policy / Jeanne Fagnani and Marie-Thérèse Letablier -- Spain : continuity and change in precarious employment / John MacInnes -- Germany : precarious employment and the rise of mini-jobs / Claudia Weinkopf -- Sweden : precarious work and precarious unemployment / Inger Jonsson and Anita Nyberg -- Spatial dimensions of gendered precariousness: challenges for comparative analysis / Martha MacDonald -- Investigating longitudinal dimensions of precarious employment : conceptual and practical issues / Sylvia Fuller -- Precarious lives in the new economy : comparative intersectional analysis / Wallace Clement, Sophie Mathieu, Steven Prus and Emre Uckardesler -- Precarious employment in the health care sector / Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
N2  - Precarious employment presents a€ challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. This collection aims to yield new ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity
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