Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment by Vosko, Leah F.

Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199574810)

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Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment by Vosko, Leah F.

Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

$105.00
Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment by Vosko, Leah F.

Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labor markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are applied to new labour market realities, leaving the most precarious forms of employment intact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for workers most likely to be at the margins, particularly women and migrants, using illustrations from Australia, the United States, and Canada, as well as member states of the European Union.

Author: Leah F. Vosko
ISBN-10: 0199574812
ISBN-13: 9780199574810
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2010
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Leah F. Vosko
By Leah F. Vosko
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Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy at York University, where she teaches comparative political economy, public policy, and women and politics. She is the author of Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship (University of Toronto Press, 2000), editor of Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, and co-author of Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006 and 2005 respecitvely). She is currently overseeing a multi-year collaborative international research project on comparative perspectives on precarious employment, the Comparative Perspectives Database (CPD), linked to the Gender and Work Database (GWD) project (www.genderwork.ca).

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