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Managing the Margins Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

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 employmentintact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for workers most l.

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  • "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 employmentintact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for workers most l."@en
  • "This book seeks to understand the precarious margins of late-capitalist labour markets. Its point of departure is the prevailing view that the full-time continuous job or the standard employment relationship (SER) is being eclipsed by part-time and temporary paid employment and self-employment. To the extent that such a shift is taking place, what are its implications for precarious employment and those struggling against it? Addressing this question, the book examines the construction, consolidation, and contraction of the SER, taking as its focus the contested emergence--within, amongst and across different nation states--of regulations on ?non-standard? forms of employment. These regulations ?see? the problem of precarious employment in ?non-standard?, which leads them to seek solutions minimizing deviations from the SER. Managing the Margins labels such approaches ?SER-centric? and illustrates how they leave intact the precarious margins of the labour market. The book employs three conceptual lenses--the normative model of employment, the gender contract, and citizenship boundaries. Chapters 1 to 3 sketch the gendered development of regulations forging the SER in parts of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US, and its evolution in the International Labour Code. Chapters 4 to 6 examine post-1990 international labour regulations responding to precariousness in employment--focusing on the ILO Convention on Part-Time Work, EU Directives on Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Work, and the ILO Recommendation on the Employment Relationship. To assess their logic, these chapters use illustrations of the regulation of part-time employment in Australia, temporary employment in the EU 15, and self-employment in OECD countries. The book concludes by assessing alternatives to SER-centrism."
  • "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 and extensive qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analyzing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries."@en

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  • "Managing the Margins Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment"@en
  • "Managing the margins gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment"@en
  • "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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