Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim / edited by Jacqueline OʼReilly and Colette Fagan.
"This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the major issues concerning the recent growth of part-time employment in industrialized societies. It examines many of the debates, analysing different circumstances in countries ranging from the US, the UK, Japan and France. The book presents for th...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Summary: | "This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the major issues concerning the recent growth of part-time employment in industrialized societies. It examines many of the debates, analysing different circumstances in countries ranging from the US, the UK, Japan and France. The book presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. Part-time Prospects brings together sociologists and economists to provide an up-to-date summary of the major theoretical debates on the changing organization of work and time, tackling such areas as gender issues, ethnic questions and the differences between certain national economies. Is this kind of work becoming an increasingly normal part of most people's working lives, or does it remain a female ghetto of low pay, low pensions and low labor standards?"--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xviii, 286 p.) : ill. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203017625 0203276108 113473042X 1280334606 9780203017623 9780203276105 9781134730421 9781280334603 |