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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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.