Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-85941-481-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: Feminist Perspectives

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Anne

O'Donnell, Thérèse

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Employment Law and Feminism 2. Feminism and Labour Law: Contesting the Terrain 3. Equal Opportunities, Staff Development and Assertiveness 4. The Sweat of the Brow or the Breaking of the Heart? 5. Marginal Notes? Gender and the Contract of Employment 6. Volunteering: A Nice Little Job for a Woman? 7. The Intersection Between Gender and Race' in the Labour Market: Lessons for Anti-Discrimination Law 8. Feminising' the Workplace? Law, the 'Good Parent' and the 'Problem of Men' 9. Workers First, Women Second? Trade Unions and the Equality Agenda 10. Mainstreaming Equal Opportunities: Succeeding When all Else Has Failed? 11. Equal Pay: Theory and Practice in two Countries

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Morris, Thérèse O'Donnell