Dualisation of Part-Time Work: The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy)

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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 dualisation and inequality between 'good' and 'bad' jobs. 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 Europe 6. 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 Germany 11. 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 This volume 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 dualisation and inequality between 'good' and 'bad' jobs 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 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, critically examining part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea