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Labour law, work, and family : critical and comparative perspectives / edited by Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 361 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0199287031 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.01 LAB
Contents:
Notes on contributors. - Acknowledgements. - List of abbreviations. 1. Introduction : interrogating the work/family divide / Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich. - Pt. 1. Situating debate about work and family. 2. Work, family, and the discipline of labour law / Joanne Conaghan. 3. Equity or efficiency : international institutions and the work/family nexus / Kerry Rittich. - Pt. II. Reimagining the worker. 4. Work/family, Australian labour law, and the normative worker / Anna Chapman. 5. The right to flexibility / Hugh Collins. 6. Recommodifying time : working hours of 'live-in' domestic workers / Guy Mundlak. 7. The family economy versus the labour market (or housework as a legal issue) / Maria Rosaria Marella. 8. Gender and diversification of labour forms in Japan / Mutsuko Asakura. 9. Poor women's work experiences : gaps in the 'work/family' discussion / Lucy Williams. 1- Pt. III. 'Family-friendly' labour law. 10. Work, family, and parenthood : the European Union agenda / Clare McGlynn. 11. Taking leave : work and family in Australian law and policy / Rosemary J. Owens. 12. A new gender contract? : work/life balance and working-time flexibility / Judy Fudge. 13. Work and family issues in the transitional countries of central and eastern Europe : the case of Hungary / Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky. 14. Issues of work and family in Japan / Hiroko Hayashi. - Pt. IV. Conclusion: a cautionary tale. 15. A woman's world : what if care work were socialized and police/fire protection left to individual families? / Richard Michael Fischl. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors. - Acknowledgements. - List of abbreviations. 1. Introduction : interrogating the work/family divide / Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich. - Pt. 1. Situating debate about work and family. 2. Work, family, and the discipline of labour law / Joanne Conaghan. 3. Equity or efficiency : international institutions and the work/family nexus / Kerry Rittich. - Pt. II. Reimagining the worker. 4. Work/family, Australian labour law, and the normative worker / Anna Chapman. 5. The right to flexibility / Hugh Collins. 6. Recommodifying time : working hours of 'live-in' domestic workers / Guy Mundlak. 7. The family economy versus the labour market (or housework as a legal issue) / Maria Rosaria Marella. 8. Gender and diversification of labour forms in Japan / Mutsuko Asakura. 9. Poor women's work experiences : gaps in the 'work/family' discussion / Lucy Williams. 1- Pt. III. 'Family-friendly' labour law. 10. Work, family, and parenthood : the European Union agenda / Clare McGlynn. 11. Taking leave : work and family in Australian law and policy / Rosemary J. Owens. 12. A new gender contract? : work/life balance and working-time flexibility / Judy Fudge. 13. Work and family issues in the transitional countries of central and eastern Europe : the case of Hungary / Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky. 14. Issues of work and family in Japan / Hiroko Hayashi. - Pt. IV. Conclusion: a cautionary tale. 15. A woman's world : what if care work were socialized and police/fire protection left to individual families? / Richard Michael Fischl. - Index.