Precarious Employment

Precarious Employment
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780773529618

'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.

Precarious Work

Precarious Work
Author: Jeff Kenner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788973267

This discerning book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of the legal and social policy challenges posed by the spread of different forms of precarious work in Europe, with various social models in force and a growing ‘gig economy’ workforce. It not only considers the theoretical foundations of the concept of precarious work, but also offers invaluable insight into the potential methods of addressing this phenomenon through labour regulation and case law at EU and national level.

Managing the Margins

Managing the Margins
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199574812

Using examples from Canada, the US, Australia and the EU, this work probes national and international regulatory responses to the shift from full-time permanent jobs towards part-time, temporary and self-employment. It analyzes their implications for workers most often precariously employed, particularly women and migrants.

Regulating for Decent Work

Regulating for Decent Work
Author: S. Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230307833

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives.

Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work

Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work
Author: Lisa Rodgers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Discrimination in employment
ISBN: 9781784715748

The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships. Its logical structure situates vulnerability in its developmental context before moving on to examine the goals of the regulation of labour law for vulnerability, its current status in the law and case studies of vulnerability such as temporary agency work and domestic work.

Precarious Work

Precarious Work
Author: Arne L. Kalleberg
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2017-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787432882

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.

Self-Employment as Precarious Work

Self-Employment as Precarious Work
Author: Wieteke Conen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788115031

Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it has become a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe.