Women, Precarious Work and Care : The Failure of Family-friendly Rights

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grabham, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women's rights.
Women > Employment.
Women caregivers.
Temporary employment.
Part-time employment.
Employee rights.
Electronic books.
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

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