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Author Vosko, Leah F.

Title Managing the margins : gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment / Leah F. Vosko
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages)
Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Forging a Gender Contract in Early National and International Labour Regulation; 2. Constructing and Consolidating the Standard Employment Relationship in International Labour Regulation; 3. The Partial Eclipse of the SER and the Dynamics of SER-Centrism in International Labour Regulations; 4. Regulating Part-Time Employment: Equal Treatment and its Limits; 5. Regulating Temporary Employment: Equal Treatment, Qualified
Summary Using examples from Canada, the US, Australia and the EU, this work probes national and international regulatory responses to the shift from full-time permanent jobs towards part-time, temporary and self-employment. It analyzes their implications for workers most often precariously employed, particularly women and migrants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-289) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Part-time employment.
Temporary employment.
Part-time employment -- Law and legislation.
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation.
Women -- Employment.
Foreign workers.
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation.
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Part-time employment
Part-time employment -- Law and legislation
Temporary employment
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation
Women -- Employment
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation
Treball precari.
Treball a temps parcial.
Treballadores.
Treballadors estrangers.
Legislació.
Genre/Form Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191572012
0191572012