Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work [1 ed.] 9781787693692, 9781787693685

The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work 9781000160383, 1000160386

This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and o

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Precarious Work [1 ed.] 9781787432871, 9781787432888

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its soci

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Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work 0472075195, 9780472075195

For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But

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Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat 9781501701726

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and const

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Gendering the Memory of Work 9780367872014, 2016002240, 9781138842458, 9781315731537

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Against the few : struggles of India's rural poor

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Informal Work in Developed Nations 0203874455, 0415777798, 9780415777797, 9780203874455

Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported

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Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms 9781472563651, 9781841136158

Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based s

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Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-friendly Rights 9781529218732

Most workers on temporary, zero hours and involuntary part-time contracts in the UK are women. Many are also carers. Yet

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Crossing the Divide : Precarious Work and the Future of Labour [1 ed.] 9781869143541, 9781869143534

While work-related insecurities and worker vulnerability induced by neoliberal globalisation are undeniably affecting an

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