Making work more equal : a new labour market segmentation approach /

This book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Jill Rubery. Jill is a major figure in international debates on inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream theoretical approaches, whether in economics, management, ind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grimshaw, Damian (Editor ), Fagan, Colette (Editor ), Hebson, Gail (Editor ), Tavora, Isabel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Labor market.
Discrimination in employment.
Employment (Economic theory)
Marché du travail.
Discrimination dans l'emploi.
Emploi.
employing.
Economics, finance, business and management.
Economics.
LAW / Labor & Employment.
Discrimination in employment
Labor market
economics
employment
new labour
inequalities
new approach
work
Collective bargaining
Minimum wage
Unemployment
Working time
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A new labour market segmentation approach for analysing inequalities: introduction and overview
  • part I: Conceptual issues: employment standards, networks and worker voice
  • 2. Autonomous bargaining in the shadow of the law: from an enabling towards a disabling state?
  • 3. The persistence of, and challenges to, societal effects in the context of global competition
  • 4. The networked organisation: implications for jobs and inequality
  • 5. The challenges for fair voice in liberal market economies
  • 6. Working-time flexibility: diversification and the rise of fragmented time systems
  • part II: International evidence: precarious employment and gender inequality
  • 7. Labour segmentation and precariousness in Spain: theories and evidence
  • 8. Subsidiary employment in Italy: can commodification of labour be self-limiting?
  • 9. Job quality: conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis
  • 10. Working longer and harder? A critical assessment of work effort in Britain in comparison to Europe
  • 11. Plague, patriarchy and 'girl power'
  • 12. The two-child policy in China: a blessing or a curse fo rthe employment of female university graduates?
  • part III: Convergence, divergence and the importance of regulating for decent work
  • 13. The social reproduction of youth labour market inequalities: the effects of gender, households and ethnicity
  • 14. Labour policies in a deflationary environment
  • 15. Uncertainty and undecidability in the contemporary state: the dualist and complex role of the state in Spanish labour and employment relations in an age of 'flexibility'
  • 16. Work and care regimes and women's employment outcomes: Australia, France and Sweden compared
  • 17. Minimum wages and the remaking of the wage-setting systems in Greece and the UK
  • Index.

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