Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy

The Challenge to Legal Norms
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84113-615-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Onati International Series in Law and Society

Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work - work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labour law and women's work explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, and evaluates the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of legal regulation.The book provides a comparative perspective by furnishing case studies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Quebec, Sweden, the UK, and the US, as well as the international and supranational context through essays that focus on the IMF, the ILO, and the EU. Common themes and concepts thread throughout the essays, which grapple with the legal and public policy challenges posed by women's precarious work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fudge, Judy

Owens, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One Introduction
1 Precarious Work, Women, and The New Economy: The Challenge to Legal
Norms Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens

Part Two Supranational Norms and Discourses about Precarious Work
2 Rights, Risk, and Reward: Governance Norms in the International Order and
the Problem of Precarious Work Kerry Rittich
3 Gender, Precarious Work, and the International Labour Code: The Ghost in
the ILO Closet Leah Vosko
4 Promoting Precariousness? The Response of EU Employment Policies to
Precarious Work Diamond Ashiagbor
Part Three Working Time and Precarious Work
5 Time to Dream? Flexibility, Families, and the Regulation of Working Time
Joanne Conaghan
6 The Need for a Reduced Workweek in the United States Vicki Schultz and Allison Hoffman
7 Gender and the Legal Regulation of Employment Breaks Claire Kilpatrick
Part Four A Matter of Status? Protecting Precarious Workers
8 Precarious Norms for Precarious Workers Sandra Fredman
9 Self-Employment, Women, and Precarious Work: The Scope of Labour
Protection Judy Fudge
10 The Regulation of Paid Care Work in the Home in Quebec: From the Hearth
to the Global Marketplace Stephanie Bernstein
Part Five Old Laws/New Workers
11 The New Face of Employment Discrimination Katherine Stone
12 On the Gendered Norm of Standard Employment in a Changing Labour
Market Jenny Julén Votinius
13The Legal Production of Precarious Work Rosemary Hunter
Part Six The Challenge of Flexibility

14 Flexibility and Security, Working Time, and Work-Family Policies Susanne Burri
15 Engendering Flexibility in a World of Precarious Work Rosemary Owens

Über Autor(innen)

Judy Fudge is currently Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, where she teaches employment and labour law. Beginning January 2007, she will be the Lansdowne Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria.
Rosemary Owens is a Reader in Law at the University of Adelaide, where she researches and teaches in the areas of labour and industrial relations law, Australian constitutional law, and feminist legal theory.