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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grabham, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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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