Families, Care-giving and Paid Work

Challenging Labour Law in the 21st Century

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84980-262-8 (ISBN)

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This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law’s engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches and perspectives.

This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law's engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches and perspectives.

Families, Care-giving and Paid Work offers an original approach to a very topical area. Not only does it consider the limitations of law in relation to the regulation of care-giving and workplace relationships, but it is premised upon a reconsideration of law's potential and engages with suggested strategies for bringing about long-term social change.

Offering a range of analyses, this book will strongly appeal to policy makers and practitioners involved with promoting work and family issues, students in labor and employment studies, law and social policy, as well as academics interested in work and family reconciliation issues, or gender and law issues.

Contributors: N. Busby, T. Callus, E. Caracciolo di Torella, S. Charlesworth, R. Guerrina, R. Horton, G. James, C. Lyonette, S. Macpherson, A. Masselot, O. Smith, M. Weldon-Johns

Edited by Nicole Busby, Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde, UK and Grace James, University of Reading, UK and

Contents:

Introduction
Nicole Busby and Grace James

PART I: WORK–FAMILY CHALLENGES
1. Reconciling Employment and Family Care-giving: A Gender Analysis of Current Challenges and Future Directions for UK Policy
Suzi Macpherson

2. Atypical Working in Europe and the Impact on Work–Family Reconciliation
Clare Lyonette

3. Is There a Fundamental Right to Reconcile Work and Family Life in the EU?
Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

PART II: NATIONAL APPROACHES AND CROSS-NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
4. The Rights and Realities of Balancing Work and Family Life in New Zealand
Annick Masselot

5. Law’s Response to the Reconciliation of Work and Care: The Australian Case
Sara Charlesworth

6. Parental Leave Rights in Italy: Reconciling Gender Ideologies with the Demands of Europeanization
Roberta Guerrina

7. Comparative Lessons on Work–Family Conflict – Swedish Parental Leave versus American Parental Leave
Michelle Weldon-Johns

PART III: ACCOMMODATING CARE
8. Care-giving and Reasonable Adjustment in the UK
Rachel Horton

9. Reconciling Care-giving and Work in Ireland: The Contribution of Protection Against Family Status Discrimination
Olivia Smith

PART IV: CHANGING FOCUS
10. Child Welfare and Work–Family Reconciliation Policies: Lessons from Family Law
Grace James and Thérèse Callus

11. Unpaid Care-giving and Paid Work Within a Rights Framework: Towards Reconciliation?
Nicole Busby

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2011
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-84980-262-9 / 1849802629
ISBN-13	978-1-84980-262-8 / 9781849802628
Zustand	Neuware