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Women, precarious work and care : the failure of family-friendly rights /
Drawing on interviews with women in precarious work, this text explores the everyday problems they face balancing work and care responsibilities. This crucial book exposes the failures of family-friendly rights and explains how to grant these women effective rights in the wake of COVID-19.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Law, society, policy.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Series
- Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Series Editor's Preface
- One Introduction
- Family-friendly rights and precarious workers
- What this book argues
- What can we do?
- Two Starting and Surviving in Precarious Work
- Starting precarious work
- Zero-hours and agency workers
- Workers on temporary contracts
- Workers on low-hours permanent contracts
- Multiple contracts
- Structural discrimination
- Surviving in precarious work
- Pay
- Low pay
- Hidden low pay
- Paying to work
- Making ends meet
- Housing
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Three Providing Care: Daily Routines and Experiences
- Types of care
- Daily routines
- Getting up early
- Little "wiggle room" between activities
- Going without sleep
- Transport
- Moving between residences
- Scheduling
- What women felt about care
- Mothers and role models
- Worrying while at work
- Guilt
- Being pulled away from children by work
- Witnessing decline
- Effects of work and care on social life
- Feeling overwhelmed
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Four Care Networks
- People involved in care networks
- Single parents
- Partners or ex-partners
- Adult children
- Parents
- Siblings
- Friends
- Family or friends not nearby
- Strategies in care networks
- Care networks involving nurseries, schools and adult care providers
- Nurseries and childcare
- Schools
- School holidays
- Adult care providers
- Care homes
- Care strategies with nurseries, schools and adult care providers
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Five "Rocking the Boat": Talking about Care in a Precarious Job
- How interviewees felt about work
- Interviewees enjoyed their work
- "Second-class citizens"
- Coping with job uncertainty
- Last-minute shifts
- Communicating with employers about care
- "Care-fog"
- Fear of "rocking the boat"
- Feeling confident
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Six How Employers Responded
- Negative environments and responses
- Generally inflexible
- Structural discrimination
- Demotion, disciplinaries and dismissals
- Positive responses
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Seven What Women Did Next
- Finding out about employment rights
- Contracts and bargaining power
- Zero-hours workers
- Workers on temporary contracts and agency workers
- Workers on low-hours permanent contracts
- Multiple contracts
- What women did next
- Less bargaining power
- Absorbing the stress and going into work
- Taking sick leave
- Deciding not to draw on rights or widespread 'good practice'
- Leave the job
- More bargaining power
- Bringing children to work
- Refraining from sick leave
- Dropping hours
- Asserting "needs of the carer or family"
- Asserting legal rights
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Eight Care-Friendly Rights for Precarious Workers