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Managing the Margins

Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

by (author) Leah F. Vosko

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2010
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780199575091
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199574810
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $90.00

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This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour 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.

Managing the Margins provides a rigorous analysis of national and international regulatory approaches, drawing on original and extensive qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analyzing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries.

About the author

Leah F. Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, Social Science (Political Science), Atkinson, York University, is the author of "Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship" and co-editor of "Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation."

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