Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

by Leah F. Vosko

Book Overview

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labor 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199575096
• ISBN13: 9780199575091
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"