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Labour Law, Work, and Family Critical and Comparative Perspectives

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Labour Law, Work, and Family

Critical and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich

376 pages | 234x156mm

978-0-19-928703-1 | Hardback | 27 October 2005

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The analysis is multi-jurisdictional, bringing together contributions from Australia, North America, Canada, the UK, Europe and Japan.
Contributions come from some of the leading international scholars in the field
The analysis is placed within the broader context of globalization, also taking account of theoretical perspectives

In recent years, gender has emerged as an important focus of attention in discourse in and around labour law. Gender is gradually moving from the margin to the mainstream of labour law debate, particularly with the development of a 'family-friendly' policy agenda. This book consists of a series of essays from an international selection of leading legal scholars exploring the shifting boundary between work and family from a labour law perspective. The object is to assess the global implications for labour law and policy of women's changing role in paid and unpaid work.

The approaches adopted by the contributors' are diverse, both conceptually and geographically, encompassing analyses from Australia, North America, Canada, the UK, Europe and Japan, and including national and supra-national perspectives. Key themes informing the collection as a whole are the re-positioning of unpaid care work as integral to the performance and structure of productive activity; and consideration of the implications of recognizing the interdependence of work and family activities. In this way, the book seeks to develop a central theme from the previously published 'Labour Law in an Era of Globalization' (Conaghan, Fischl and Klare, eds. OUP), as part of an ongoing exploration into the distributive implications of economic and political globalization.

Readership: Scholars and students of labour law, welfare law, family law, immigration law, international economic law, and development law; and feminist scholars, students and activists interested in women's studies, social theory and social policy

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