| Description |
1 online resource (322 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in European law and policy |
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Cambridge studies in European law and policy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Introduction; Working Time as a Gendered Issue at the European Union Level; Aims and Scope of the Study; The Book's Approach and Contribution; Sources of Data; Book Organization and Chapter Summaries; 1 Theorizing the Gendered Politics of Working-time Regulation in Multi-level Contexts; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Contextualizing Legal Norms in the Universe of Political Discourse; 1.3 Political Discourses and Labour Law in Multi-level Contexts |
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1.4 Towards a Gendered Labour Law Analysis -- Social Reproduction, Gender, and the Regulation of Working Time1.4.1 Theorizing Social Reproduction; 1.4.2 Institutionalization of Social Reproduction -- Gender Orders, Regimes, Contracts; 1.4.3 Time, Working-time Regimes, and the Standard Employment Relationship; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 The European Union Universe of Political Discourse on Working Time -- from Security to Flexibility and Beyond; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 From Security to Flexibility -- Defining the Terms of the Working-time Debate; 2.2.1 Shifting the Priorities in the Debate on Working Time |
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2.2.2 Defining Flexibility and its Three Dimensions2.3 European Working-time Regulation -- the Terrain of Competing Discourses; 2.3.1 The Institutional Framework of Social Europe; 2.3.2 Between Security and Flexibility -- Fostering Economic Efficiency and Combating Unemployment as Rationales for Community Working-time Regulation; 2.3.3 Limiting Flexibility, or Embedding Flexibility? -- Health and Safety and the 1993 Working Time Directive; 2.3.4 Working-time Flexibility Beyond Economic Efficiency -- Reconciliation of Work and Family, and Gender Equality; 2.4 Taking Gender Seriously? |
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2.5 Conclusion3 The European Union Working Time Directive -- Laying the Gender-neutral Foundation for a Flexible Working-time Regime; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The 1993 Working Time Directive; 3.2.1 Minimum Standards and Maximum Flexibility; 3.2.2 The UK's European Court of Justice Challenge; 3.2.3 Diluting the Standards, Narrowing the Political Discourse; 3.3 Working Time Directive Review and Failed Revision Attempt; 3.3.1 Developments Related to the Working Time Directive; 3.3.2 Working Time Directive 2004 to 2009 Revision Process; 3.3.3 The 2009 Revision Debacle |
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3.4 Regulating Working Time -- Missing Gender?3.5 Conclusion; 4 Polish Working-time Regime from Socialism to the Liberal Democracy -- Long Hours, Women's Double Burden, and Social Reproduction; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 'What Have You Done to Achieve the Plan?'- the Discourse of Civic Duty and the Structural Causes of Long-hours Work in the People's Republic; 4.2.1 Introduction; 4.2.2 The People's Republic Working-time Regime, 1945-1989; 4.2.3 Working Time and Social Reproduction in the People's Republic -- the State's Provision and Women's Double Burden |
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4.3 Polish Working-time Regime in Transition -- 'Catching Up' with the West |
| Summary |
Ania Zbyszewska's feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hours of labor -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries
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Hours of labor -- Law and legislation -- Poland
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Poland
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Hours of labor -- Law and legislation
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation
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European Union countries
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Poland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316656266 |
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1316656268 |
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9781316657669 |
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1316657663 |
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9781107121256 |
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1107121256 |
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9781316343951 |
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1316343952 |
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1316655210 |
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9781316655214 |
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9781316655566 |
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1316655563 |
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1316655911 |
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9781316655917 |
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