Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison

ISBN 10: 0415156696 / ISBN 13: 9780415156691

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415156696
• ISBN 13: 9780415156691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years. Part-Time Prospects 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. It brings together sociologists and economists in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey. It tackles such areas as gender issues, ethnic questions and the differences between certain national economies including low pay, pensions and labour standards.

About the Author

Jacqueline O’Reilly is Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and also teaches at the Royal Holloway School of Management, London University. She is currently co-ordinating a comparative research programme on employment in Europe funded by the Targeted Socio[1]Economic Research Programme from DGXII of the European Commission. Colette Fagan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool and an Honorary Research Fellow at the European Work and Employment Centre, at UMIST. Her research focuses on gender relations in labour markets, working time and the organisation of domestic life, with a particular interest in international comparisons.