Dualisation of Part-Time Work: The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders

This Volume Brings Together Leading International Authors From A Number Of Fields To Provide An Up-to-date Understanding Of Part-time Work At National, Sector, Industry And Workplace Levels. The Contributors Critically Examine Part-time Employment In Different Institutional Settings Across Europe, The Usa, Australia And Korea. This Analysis Serves As A Prism To Investigate Wider Trends, Particularly In Female Employment, Including The Continued Increase In Part-time Work And Processes That Are Increasingly Creating Dualisation And Inequality Between 'good' And 'bad' Jobs. Front Matter -- Contents -- List Of Tables And Figures -- List Of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Styles And Methods Of Policy Analysis In Brazil -- European Union Regulations And -- Governance Of Part-time Work -- So Close, So Far? Part-time Employment And Its Effects On Gender Equality In Italy And Spain1 -- Workplace Responses To National Regulations To Reduce Involuntary Part-time Work -- The Quality Of Working Conditions -- And Part-time Work -- Part-time Working Women's Access To Other Types Of Flexible Working-time Arrangements Across Europe -- Part-time Work In Danish Private Services: A (mis)match 133 Between Wage Flexibility And Living Hours -- Stepping In, Stepping Out Or Staying Put? Part-time Work And Immigrant Integration In Norway -- How Good Is Half A Job? Part-time Employment And Job Quality In The Us -- Dualisation Or Normalisation Of Part-time Work In The Nordic Countries: Work Insecurity And Mobility Over Time -- Work-life Balance, Gender And Part-time Work -- The Interplay Of Welfare State Policies With Supply- And Demand-side Factors In The Production Of Marginalised Part-time Employment Among Women In Germany -- Part-time Strategies Of Women And Men Of Childbearing Age In The Netherlands And Australia -- Are Female Part-time Workers Dualised In South Korea? Institutional Structures And Employment Conditions Of South Korean Female Part-time Jobs -- Conclusion And Prospects -- Index Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne Kavli, And Ragnhild Steen Jensen. Previously Issued In Print: 2019. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.