Gender, Employment and Working Time Preferences in Europe
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Gender, Employment and Working Time Preferences in Europe
Author: Colette Fagan
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat types of work arrangements do women and men prefer? To what extent do current work patterns diverge from these preferences? These questions are of vital importance for European employment policy. To achieve a higher employment rate, it is necessary both to increase the number of jobs and to encourage work arrangements that accommodate individual preferences. In this way, women and men will be able to participate actively in the labour market throughout their working lives. This report looks at the role played by gender in determining labour market participation. It draws on findings from a major survey on employment options carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions across all 15 EU Member States and Norway. It shows how women's and men's employment preferences are related to the kinds of jobs they do, as well as to their domestic circumstances, and compares the wishes of those who are currently employed with those of job-seekers. The study covers a range of aspects including self-employment, working from home, childcare, and working time arrangements.
Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries
Author: Jon C. Messenger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-09-09
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1135993327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we enter the new century, a common goal has emerged: the removal or liberalization of restrictions on unsocial hours and the variation of working hours. This book draws together an international team to examine the process.
Gendering European Working Time Regimes
Author: Ania Zbyszewska
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1316654168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe standard approach to regulating working hours rests on gendered assumptions about how paid and unpaid work ought to be divided. In this book, Ania Zbyszewska takes a feminist, socio-legal approach to evaluate whether the contemporary European working time regimes can support a more equal sharing of this work. Focusing on the legal and political developments surrounding the EU's Working Time Directive and the reforms of Poland's Labour Code, Zbyszewska reveals that both regimes retain this traditional gender bias, and suggests the reasons for its persistence. She employs a wide range of data sources and uses the Polish case to assess the EU influence over national policy discourse and regulation, with the broader transnational policy trends also considered. This book combines legal analysis with social and political science concepts to highlight law's constitutive role and relational dimensions, and to reflect on the relationship between discursive politics and legal action.
Women's Employment in Europe
Author: Colette Fagan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999-08-05
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1134639902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years. It considers the progress made towards equal treatment in the labour market in the light of European Union action programmes, and
Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Gillian Pascall
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2005-11-30
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 184742144X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism and into a European Union that has issues of women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy. The analysis draws on quantitative comparative data, and on rich qualitative data from a new study of mothers in Polish households, illuminating the effects of changing welfare and gender relations from the perspective of those most directly affected - mothers of young children. This book is an important addition to the literature and is recommended to academics and students interested in the study of gender relations, welfare states, and international and comparative European social policy. The insights gained will also be of value to those engaged in welfare policy and practice.
Decent Working Time
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9789221179504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding international comparative analysis alongside national case studies, this volume offers a wealth of information on the new trends which have emerged over the past decades - all of which were discussed at the recent 9th International Symposium on Working Time, Paris (2004). It looks at the increasing use of results-based employment relationships for managers and professionals, and the increasing fragmentation of time to more closely tailor staffing needs to customer requirements (e.g., short-hours, part-time work). Moreover, as operating/opening hours rapidly expand toward a 24-hour and 7-day economy, the book considers how this has resulted in a growing diversification, decentralization, and individualization of working hours, as well as an increasing tension between enterprises' business requirements and workers' needs and preferences regarding their hours. This new reality has raised some other challenging issues as well and the volume addresses those such as increasing employment insecurity and instability, time-related social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, workers' ability to balance their paid work with their personal lives, and even the synchronization of working hours with social times, such as community activities.
Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
Author: Jacqueline L. Scott
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1849805563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? This book documents how gender inequalities are changing and how many inequalities of earlier eras are being eradicated.
Work and Society
Author: Tim Strangleman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-04-10
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1134327773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork and Society is an important new text about the sociology of work and employment. It provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, business and politics, with a firm and enjoyable foundation to this fascinating area of sociology, giving comprehensive coverage of traditional areas of the sub-discipline as well as new trends and developments. The book is divided into three complementary and interconnected sections – investigating work, work and social change and understanding work. These sections allow readers to explore themes, issues and approaches by examining how sociologists have thought about, and researched work and how the sub-discipline has been influenced by wider society itself. Novel features include separate chapters on researching work, domestic work, unemployment and work, and the representation of work in literary and visual media.
Weighing Up Australian Values
Author: Brian Howe
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780868408859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk, and discusses new directions in social policy to anticipate and help people address risk.
