Labour Law, Work, and Family

Critical and Comparative Perspectives

Kerry Rittich editor Joanne Conaghan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:27th Oct '05

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Labour Law, Work, and Family cover

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.

This important and timely collection offers a rigorous interrogation of many of the assumptions behind this new policy agenda...a challenging and thoughtful critique of the 'work/life balance' debate * Feminist Legal Studies *
..an excellent account of the ongoing debate over the role of law in structuring the labour market and policing the boundaries between work and family. It offers a significant and very welcome addition to scholarship * Feminist Legal Studies *

ISBN: 9780199287031

Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm

Weight: 725g

384 pages