Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment
- Vosko, Leah F. (Author)
Contents: Precarious employment -- An integrated analysis -- Regulations at different scales -- A multi-method approach -- The book in brief -- Forging a gender contract in early national and international labour regulation: Select national developments, 1830s-1930s; International developments, 1870s-1919; Preparing the ground for the SER -- Constructing and consolidating the standard employment relationship (SER) in international labour regulation: Constructing the pillars of the SER : the interwar and immediate postwar years; Stripping the SER of its exclusions: the era of formal equality; The resilience of the baseline -- The partial eclipse of the SER and the dynamics of SER-centrism in International Labour Regulations: A portrait of the SER in Australia, Canada, the EU 15, and the United States, 1980s-2006; SER-Centrism at the margins of late-capitalist labour markets; Regulating part-time, fixed-term, temporary agency work, and self employment -- Regulating part-time employment: Equal treatment and its limits: The deterioration of standardized working time; SER-centric responses to precariousness in part-time employment: The ILO Convention on part-time work (1994); Regulating part-time employment in Australia; Lessons from Australia and alternative possibilities -- Regulating temporary employment: Equal treatment, qualified: The erosion of the open-ended employment relationship; SER-centric responses to precariousness in temporary employment in the EU; Regulating temporary agency work in the EU 15; Lessons from the EU 15 and alternative possibilities -- Self-employment and the regulation of the employment relationship: From equal treatment to effective protection: The destabilization of the employment relationship at the crux of the SER; SER-centric responses to precariousness in work for renumeration at cusp of the employment relationship: ILO actions, 1990-2006; Approaches to regulating self-employment in industrialized market economy countries; Lessons from industrialized market economy countries and alternative possibilities -- Alternatives to the SER: Why there is no returning to the SER; A tiered SER; A 'flexible SER'; 'Beyond employment'; Towards an alternative imaginary.