Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment [Paperback]

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.

The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book brings together contributions addressing this issue which include case studies exploring the size, nature, and dynamics of precarious employment in different industrialized countries and chapters examining conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of precarious employment in comparative perspective.

The collection aims to yield new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, measuring, and responding, via public policy and other means  such as new forms of union organization and community organizing at multiple scales  to the forces driving labour market insecurity.

1. Introduction: Gender and the Concept of Precarious Employment Leah F. Vosko, Martha Macdonald and Iain Campbell  2. Canada: Gendered Precariousness and Social Reproduction Leah F. Vosko and Lisa Clark  3. The United States: Different Sources of Precariousness in a Mosaic of Employment Arrangements Francoise Carr? and James Heintz  4. Australia: Casual Employment, Part-Time Employment and the Resilience of the Male-Breadwinner Model Iain Campbell, Gillian Whitehouse and Janeen Baxter  5. Japan: The Reproductive Bargain and the Making of Precarious Employment Heidi Gottfried  6. Irl#�