Women, Work and Inequality

The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Brings together academics, lawyers, trade unionists and industrial relations experts to provide an incisive analysis of the impact of globalisation and deregulation on gender inequality in employment. It reviews the evolution of pay equity polices and examines the impact of economic and social trends on divisions between women.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:303 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349404872

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JEANNE GREGORY is Visiting Professor and Head of the Gender Research Centre at Middlesex University. She is author of Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality and has published articles on equal pay, sex and race discrimination, sexual harassment and women refugees. ROSEMARY SALES is Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Science at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of the MA Gender and Society. She is author of Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland and Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics (with E. Kofman, A. Phizacklea and P. Raghuram). She has published a number of articles on migration and social exclusion in Europe. ARIANE HEGEWISCH is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. She is the co-author of Policy and Practice of European Human Resource Management; European Developments in Human Resource Management and the European Human Resource Management Guide.

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Introduction PART ONE: LABOUR MARKET INEQUALITIES: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Then and Now: Equal Pay in European Union Politics; C.Hoskyns Global Feminization and Flexible Labour Markets: Gendered Discourse in the Opposition to Pay Equality Reform; D.Figart & E.Mutari Pay Equity: Hard Work Down Under; M.Coleman Globalization, Feminization and Pay Inequalities in London and the UK; I.Bruegel PART TWO: RACE, MIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT Immigration, Ethnicity and Exclusion: Implications of European Integration; R.Sales & J.Gregory 'Just Like One of the Family'? Gender, Ethnicity and Migrant Status among Filipino Domestic Workers in Rome; C.Tacoli South Asian Women Homeworkers in East London; K.Bhopal PART THREE: EVALUATING EQUAL PAY LAW Pay Equity: Lessons from Ontario, Canada; P.McDermott Negative (Pay) Equity - An Analysis of some (Side) Effects of the Equal Pay Act; S.Hastings Independent Experts in Equal Pay; A.Arthurs PART FOUR: THE STRATEGIC USE OF EQUAL PAY LAW Public Sector Reforms in a Changing Economic and Political Climate: Lessons from Michigan; P.Kahn & D.Figart Strategic Litigation in Pursuit of Pay Equality; R.Allen & G.Moon Union Strategies for Equality: The Role of Unison; M.Howes with A.Hegewisch List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Glossary Index