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Subject(s)

• Part-time employment [Browse]
• Labor market [Browse]

Editor

• Jensen, Ragnhild Steen [Browse]
• Kavli, Hanne Cecilie [Browse]
• Nicolaisen, Heidi [Browse]

Series

Research in comparative & global social policy. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea. This analysis serves as a prism to investigate wider trends, particularly in female employment, including the continued increase in part-time work and processes that are increasingly creating dualization and inequality between 'good' and 'bad' jobs.

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Contents

Front cover; Half-title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Series preface; 1. Introduction; Part One: Institutional and organisational regulations of part-time work; 2. European Union regulations and governance of part-time work; 3. So close, so far? Part-time employment and its effects on gender equality in Italy and Spain; 4. Workplace responses to national regulations to reduce involuntary part-time work; Part Two: The quality of working conditions and part-time work 5. Part-time working women's access to other types of flexible working-time arrangements across Europe6. Part-time work in Danish private services: a (mis)match between wage flexibility and living hours; 7. Stepping in, stepping out or staying put? Part-time work and immigrant integration in Norway; 8. How good is half a job? Part-time employment and job quality in the US; 9. Dualisation or normalisation of part-time work in the Nordic countries: work insecurity and mobility over time; Part Three: Work-life balance, gender and part-time work 10. The interplay of welfare state policies with supply- and demand-side factors in the production of marginalized part-time employment among women in Germany11. Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia; 12. Are female part-time workers dualised in South Korea? Institutional structures and employment conditions of South Korean female part-time jobs; 13. Conclusion and prospects; Index; Back cover.

Other title(s)

Dualisation of Part-Time Work

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