Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisAny organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over. Talk in the hallways increases, staff worry about their jobs, uncertainty grows. Even when the change has happened, problems emerge when the boss who was hired to manage “from above” has to learn about the organization “from below.” In this book, Niklas Luhmann scrutinizes the relationship and shows how it is stretched to its limit by communication difficulties, demands for self-presentation, and disagreements concerning fundamental values. Many of the tensions crystallize around the question “who has the power?” It isn’t necessarily the boss, provided the employees are well versed in the art of directing their superiors. “Subtervision” is Luhmann’s term for this state of affairs, and tact is the most important means to this end. Yet caution is advised: whoever achieves mastery in subtervision may well become the new boss. This slim and thought-provoking book from one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century will be of great interest to anyone seeking to understand the dynamics and machinations of the workplace.Trade Review"While many know Niklas Luhmann in his capacity as a systems theoretician, few are aware that he has also written a number of important essays in organization theory. The New Boss represents an excellent introduction to this part of Luhmann's work: it is bristling with interesting ideas about leadership, formal organizations, groups and much more."—Richard Swedberg, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: "The Same Boss as the Old Was?" Andreas Hess The New Boss The Spontaneous Creation of Order Subtervision or The Art of Directing Superiors AfterwordJürgen Kaube Sources of the Texts Notes

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Book SynopsisMuch of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coerced, full-time, part-time, or zero-hours, work defines us and helps shape our behavior both on and off the job. In this accessible book, leading labor economist Bruce Pietrykowski offers a highly engaging exploration of the history and contemporary organization of work under capitalism. His clear presentation of the theoretical debates is illustrated by real-world examples from across the globe and a skillful account of alternatives that point toward a post-capitalist future. Employing a progressive, worker-centered vision that goes beyond mainstream economics, he examines themes ranging from inequality, care work, and the gig economy to technological change and a universal basic income. His analysis emphasizes power, conflict, solidarity, and cooperation, interpreted through the lenses of class, race, gender, and place. This comprehensive and highly readable book will be of interest to students of economics, sociology, labor studies, and politics seeking to learn more about work and workers in the global economy, as well as interested general readers.Trade Review�This bright, readable, and radical overview of labor economics points a smart finger at the work that goes on behind and beyond capitalist employment.�Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts �This book provides a lucid and readable introduction to the political economy of work for students and non-economists. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, and Post-Keynesian schools of thought, and a wealth of historical examples, Pietrykowski provides a toolkit to break the intellectual fetters of mainstream economics. Starting with the question of what is special about labor, Pietrykowski's discussion covers labor-market inequality, work in the household, employer behavior, worker ownership, technological change, and much more.�Ian Greer, Cornell University�Bruce Pietrykowski has written a sharp and nuanced critique of mainstream perspectives in labor economics that will broaden readers' understanding of what constitutes �work� in the modern economy.�Journal of Labor and Society�Very insightful...the book functions as Cliff Notes...for the classics and gives interested readers a wealth of citations and material on contemporary debates.�Daniel James Joseph, Labour

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a stable status that involves a bundle of rights – has maintained a curious persistence. Examining the ways companies are attacking these rights, from proffering temporary work to involuntary part-time work to ‘gigging’, he reveals the paradoxes of the situation and argues that it should not and cannot continue. He goes on to propose reforms to reverse the perverse incentives that reward irresponsible employers and punish good ones, setting out an agenda for a realistic future of secure work. Crouch’s penetrating analysis will be of interest to everyone interested in the future of work, the welfare state and the gig economy.Trade Review‘A timely and thought-provoking read, lifting the lid on how the gig economy is undermining workers, damaging society and compromising our prosperity. It ought to act as a wake-up call to policy-makers and politicians.’Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress ‘Crouch presents a careful discussion of the relevant data and posits a powerful set of proposals for reforming labour markets in the era of the gig economy.’Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a stable status that involves a bundle of rights – has maintained a curious persistence. Examining the ways companies are attacking these rights, from proffering temporary work to involuntary part-time work to ‘gigging’, he reveals the paradoxes of the situation and argues that it should not and cannot continue. He goes on to propose reforms to reverse the perverse incentives that reward irresponsible employers and punish good ones, setting out an agenda for a realistic future of secure work. Crouch’s penetrating analysis will be of interest to everyone interested in the future of work, the welfare state and the gig economy.Trade Review‘A timely and thought-provoking read, lifting the lid on how the gig economy is undermining workers, damaging society and compromising our prosperity. It ought to act as a wake-up call to policy-makers and politicians.’Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress ‘Crouch presents a careful discussion of the relevant data and posits a powerful set of proposals for reforming labour markets in the era of the gig economy.’Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

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Book SynopsisThe outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but there has been little research into White British women who work as independent providers of cleaning services. Work, Labour and Cleaning is a cross-cultural analysis based on new research into two particular social contexts, one in the UK and one in India. It argues that outsourced domestic cleaning can be undertaken either as work (using mental and manual skills) or as labour (unskilled, 'natural' women’s work) depending on the social context and working conditions in which it occurs. The book challenges feminist dogma and popular myths about housework.Trade Review"Brilliant and thought-provoking, this much-needed book takes up the challenge to compare two realities treated so far as 'worlds apart'.'' Sabrina Marchetti, Ca’ Foscari University of VeniceTable of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualising Paid Domestic Work Behind the Words: Introducing the Research Project and Respondents Nuances in the Politics of Demand for Outsourced Housecleaning The Imperfect Contours of Outsourced Domestic Cleaning as Dirty Work Domestic Cleaning: Work or Labour Meanings of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour The Occupational Relations of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour Concluding the Book, Continuing the Journey Appendices

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Book SynopsisAusterity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions. With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary spheres. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book engages with the major debates surrounding austerity and neoliberalism, providing grounded analysis of the everyday experience of work and employment.Table of ContentsPART I: Introduction Understanding Austerity: Its Reach and Presence in the Changing Context of Work and Employment ~ Donna Baines and Ian Cunningham PART II: Trends and Themes The Age of Increased Precarious Employment: Origins and Implications ~ Wayne Lewchuk Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Ambiguities of Platform-Mediated Domestic Work under Conditions of Austerity. Comparative Landscapes of Austerity and the Gig Economy: New York and Berlin ~ Niels van Doorn Trends in Collective Bargaining, Wage Stagnation and Income Inequality under Austerity ~ Ian Cunningham and Philip James Privatization, Hybridization and Resistance in Contemporary Care Work ~ Pat Armstrong and Donna Baines PART III: Case Studies of Austerity in the Private, Public and Nonprofit Sectors Non-Citizenship at Work: Labour Flexibility Behind the Counter in Western Canada ~ Geraldina Polanco What We Talk About When We Talk About Austerity: Social Policy, Public Management and Politics of Eldercare Funding in Canada and China ~ Kendra Strauss and Feng Xu Public Sector Reform and Work Restructuring for Firefighters in Scotland ~ Eva Jendro and Dora Scholarios Austerity, Personalized Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme ~ Donna Baines and Doug Young The Rise of Managerialism in the US: Whither Worker Control? ~ Mimi Abramovitz and Jennifer Zelnick Austerity and the Irish Non-Profit Voluntary and Community Sector ~ Pauric O’Rourke PART IV: Alternatives and Resistance ‘The most striking progressive achievement in labor and employment policy’? The Scottish Living Wage in Social Care during Austerity ~ Alina M. Baluch Legislation: A Double-Edged Sword in Union Resistance to Zero-Hours Work – The Case of Ireland ~ Juliette MacMahon, Lorraine Ryan, Michelle O’Sullivan, Jonathan Lavelle, Caroline Murphy, Mike O’Brien, Tom Turner and Patrick Gunnigle Moral Projects and Compromise Resistance: Resisting Uncaring in Non-Profit Care Work ~ Donna Baines Austerity, Resistance and the Labour Movement ~ Helen Blakely and Steve Davies Afterword: Final Word and the Path Forward – Is the Myth of Austerity Giving Way to Myth of the Robots Taking the Jobs? ~ Jill Rubery

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Book SynopsisRecent developments in the organization of work and production have facilitated the decline of wage employment in many regions of the world. However, the idea of the wage continues to dominate the political imaginations of governments, researchers and activists, based on the historical experiences of industrial workers in the global North. This edited collection revitalises debates on the future of work by challenging the idea of wage employment as the global norm. Taking theoretical inspiration from the global South, the authors compare lived experiences of ‘ordinary work’ across taken-for-granted conceptual and geographical boundaries; from Cambodian brick kilns to Catalonian cooperatives. Their contributions open up new possibilities for how work, identity and security might be woven together differently. This volume is an invaluable resource for academics, students and readers interested in alternative and emerging forms of work around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Work Beyond the Wage ~ William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams Part One: RUPTURES Chapter 1., "Shit Wages" and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin ~ Tatiana Thieme Chapter 2., The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain ~ Sam Strong Chapter 3., Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States ~ Claudia Strauss Part Two: RESIGNATIONS Chapter 4., Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India ~ Asiya Islam Chapter 5., ‘Be Your Own Boss’: Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa ~ Hannah Dawson Chapter 6., Work Outside the Hamster’s Cage: Precarity and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Catalonia ~ Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar Chapter 7., Choosing to be Unfree? The Aspirations and Constraints of Debt-bonded Brick Workers in Cambodia ~ Nithya Natarajan, Katherine Brickell, and Laurie Parsons Part Three: STRUGGLES Chapter 8., “Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka ~ Annemiek Prins Chapter 9., Going Gojek, or Staying Ojek? Competing Visions of Work and Economy in Jakarta’s Motorbike Taxi Industry ~ Mechthild von Vacano Chapter 10., "I Voted Bolsonaro for President": Street Vending and the Crisis of Labour Representation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ~ Mara Nogueira Part Four: POSSIBILITIES Chapter 11., Extraordinary: Crisis, Charity and Care in London’s World without Work ~ Dora-Olivia Vicol Chapter 12., Defending the Wage: Visions of Work and Distribution in Namibia ~ E. Fouksman

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Book SynopsisWhy does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo? Written by a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, this book examines issues of equality in the City, what its practitioners say in public and what they think behind closed doors. Drawing on research, interviews, practitioner literature and internal reports, it argues that hiring practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of affluent applicants, and future progress may only be achieved by the state taking a greater role in organizational life. It calls for a policy shift at both the organizational and governmental level to address the implications of widening inequality in the UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Capital and Context Part 1: Why the City Isn't Fair 2. Reputation and Respect 3. Qualifications and Complexity 4. Scarcity and Similarity 5. Status and Stereotypes Part 2: Why Diversity Doesn't Work 6. Diversity and Diffusion 7. Capital and Control 8. Stigma and Shame 9. Ridicule and Resistance 10. Rethinking Respect

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Book SynopsisThis agenda-setting book shows how freedom of movement has made the integration of Europe’s labour markets a contentious issue, for example in the aftermath of the eurocrisis, where workers had to make great sacrifices to enable the currency area to function. It argues that the process of market integration in Europe has undermined the power and influence of European workers and generated significant human costs. In starting from the position of labour, this book offers an alternative approach which balances the needs of justice and efficiency. With appeal across a wide range of readers interested in economic integration, it provides lessons for policymakers in how to integrate Europe’s member states to better protect workers and citizens.Table of ContentsI. A New Approach 1. Belaboured Europe 2. The Uniqueness of Labour 3. An Optimum Labour Area? II. Starting Points 4. From the Beginning 5. A Multitude of Labour Markets III. Adjustment Mechanisms 6. The Demise of Member State Policy Autonomy 7. Europe to the Rescue? 8. Money and People on the Move IV. Results 9. The Power of Labour 10. Reducing Workaway

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Book SynopsisWestern culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed by the left and right in politics, the contemporary welfare state attempts to transform the unemployed into active jobseekers, punishing non-compliance. Drawing on ideas from economic theology, this provocative book uncovers deep-rooted religious concepts and shows how they continue to influence contemporary views of work and unemployment: Jobcentres resemble purgatory where the unemployed attempt to redeem themselves, jobseeking is a form of pilgrimage in hope of salvation, and the economy appears as providence, whereby trials and tribulations test each individual. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the sociology and anthropology of modern economic life. Chapters 1 and 3 are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paradoxes of Welfare Archaic Anthropology: The Presence of the Past in the Present Reform: Policies and the Polity Vocation: Doing God’s Work Purgatory: The Ideal of Purifying Suffering Pilgrimage: The Interminable Ritual of Jobseeking Curriculum Vitae: Confessions of Faith in the Labour Market Conclusion: Parables of Welfare

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Book SynopsisDrawing on case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain, this book offers a novel assessment of labour struggles and class formation. Gallas explores key issues around class relations, struggles around waged and unwaged work and labour movements in contemporary capitalism to bring class theory back to labour studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the representation of women and their interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK. Drawing on case studies of the careers of 100 activists and a longitudinal study of the trade unions' struggle for equal pay in the UK, it unveils the social, organizational, and political conditions that contribute to the reproduction of gender inequalities or, on the contrary, allow the promotion of equality. Guillaume’s nuanced evaluation is a call to redefine the role of trade unions in the delivering of gender equality, contributing to broader debates on the effectiveness of equality policies and the enforcement of equality legislation.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Unions’ Representation Of Women and Their Interests In the Workplace 3 The Gendered Making Of Union Careers 4 Legal Mobilizations By Unions to Defend Equal Pay In Great Britain 5 Conclusion: Lessons for Future (Comparative) Research

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Book SynopsisMore people are extending their working lives through necessity or choice in the context of increasingly precarious labour markets and neoliberalism. This book goes beyond the aggregated statistics to explore the lived experiences of older people attempting to make job transitions. Drawing on the voices of older workers in a diverse range of European countries, leading scholars explore job redeployment and job mobility, temporary employment, unemployment, employment beyond pension age and transitions into retirement. This book makes a major contribution and will be essential reading within a range of disciplines, including social gerontology, management, sociology and social policy.Table of ContentsPart I: Introducing Older Worker Job Transitions in a Neoliberal Era 1. Job Transitions in Older Age in an Era of Neoliberal Responsibilisation ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst 2. The Social Construction of Work and Retirement: Changing Transitions and ‘Work- endings’ ~ Chris Phillipson Part II: European Experiences of Older Worker Transitions 3. Job Redeployment of Older Workers in UK Local Government ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst 4. Time, Precarisation and Age Normality: On Internal Job Mobility among Men in Manual Work in Sweden ~ Clary Krekula 5. Temporary Older Workers in Belgium as a Demonstration of a Paradoxical Situation ~ Nathalie Burnay 6. Attempted Transitions from Unemployment in Italy ~ Emma Garavaglia 7. Divorced Women Working Past Pension Age in Germany and the UK: The Long Shadow of the Female Homemaker Model~ Anna Hokema 8. Expectations of Transitions to Retirement in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime Part III: Conclusions and Discussion 9. Retirement and Responsibilisation: Current Narratives about the End of Working Life ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst

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Book SynopsisMuch of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.Table of Contents1. The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age 2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest 3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game 4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa’s Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor 5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane 6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig 7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig 8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour

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Book SynopsisMuch of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.Table of Contents1. The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age 2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest 3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game 4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa’s Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor 5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane 6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig 7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig 8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour

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Book SynopsisInsurance is an important – if still poorly understood – mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life. This book conducts an in-depth examination of one of the largest and longest-established private insurance industries in Europe: British life insurance. In doing so, it draws on over 40 oral history interviews to trace how the sector has changed since the 1970s, a period characterized by rampant financialization and neoliberalization. Combining insights from science and technology studies and economic sociology, this is an unprecedented study of the evolution of insurance practices and an invaluable contribution to our understanding of financial capitalism.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Life Insurance in the Age of Finance Chapter 2: Financialization, Quantification and Evaluation Chapter 3: Shifting Boundaries between Insurance and Finance Chapter 4: Actuaries Going on a Random Walk Chapter 5: ‘Authors of Their Own Misfortune’ Chapter 6: ‘Taking Account of What the Market Has To Say’ Chapter 7: Managing Risk in Insurance Chapter 8: The Long Road to Solvency II (and Back Again?) Chapter 9: De-Risking Pensions, Managing Assets Chapter 10: Financial Evaluation and the Future of Insurance Society References

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Book Synopsis•Addresses a gap in the literature by bringing human resource management into dialogue with public policy •Combines rigorous academic research with practitioner case studiesTable of Contents1 Introduction: Why Is Employer Engagement Important? Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk PART I The Macro Level: Political Economy and Policies 2 Varieties of Policy Approaches to Employer Engagement in Activation Policies Thomas Bredgaard, Jo Ingold and Rik Van Berkel 3 Political Economy of the Inclusive Labour Market Revisited: Welfare through Work in Denmark David Etherington and Martin Jones 4 Skills, Apprenticeships and Diversity: Employer Engagement With Further and Higher Education Patrick McGurk and Omolola Olaleye 5 Practice Case Study: Programme Commissioning and Co-Opetition in the UK and Australia Orla Baker, Jo Ingold, Emma Crichton and Tony Carr PART II The Meso Level: Programmes and Actors 6 the Weakest Link? Job Quality and Active Labour Market Policy in the UK Anne Green and Paul Sissons 7 Opening the Black Box of Promoting Employer Engagement at the Street Level of Employment Services Tanja Dall, Flemming Larsen and Mikkel Bo Madsen 8 Active Labour Market Programmes and Employer Engagement in the UK and Germany Jay Wiggan and Matthias Knuth 9 Practice Case Study: Reconnecting Employee and Employer Engagement Through Continuous Improvement of Policy Andrew Hamilton PART III The Micro Level: Workplaces and Their Contexts 10 Who Are the Engaged Employers? Strategic Entry-Level Resourcing in Low-Wage Sectors Patrick McGurk and Richard Meredith 11 HRM and Social Security: It Takes Two To Create a Transitional Labour Market Irmgard Borghouts and Charissa Freese 12 Conditions, Processes and Pressures Promoting Inclusive Organisations Jeffrey Moore and William Hanson 13 Practice Case Study: Sephora’s Journey to an Inclusive Workplace and the ‘Let Us Belong’ Philosophy William Hanson, Jeffrey Moore and Tom Gustafson 14 Conclusion: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work Patrick McGurk and Jo Ingold

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Book SynopsisWhy does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo? Written by a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, this book examines issues of equality in the City, what its practitioners say in public and what they think behind closed doors. Drawing on research, interviews, practitioner literature and internal reports, it argues that hiring practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of affluent applicants, and future progress may only be achieved by the state taking a greater role in organizational life. It calls for a policy shift at both the organizational and governmental level to address the implications of widening inequality in the UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Capital and Context Part 1: Why the City Isn't Fair 2. Reputation and Respect 3. Qualifications and Complexity 4. Scarcity and Similarity 5. Status and Stereotypes Part 2: Why Diversity Doesn't Work 6. Diversity and Diffusion 7. Capital and Control 8. Stigma and Shame 9. Ridicule and Resistance 10. Rethinking Respect

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Book SynopsisThe turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit behaviour, and seldom in relation to the cross-border mobility practices of migrant workers within and without the workplace. Drawing from labour process theory, the autonomy of migration, social reproduction, and industrial relations, this book explores the relationship between labour mobility and international migration under a global and historical perspective. Uncovering both the individual and collective actions by migrants inside and outside worker organizations, the authors develop a new understanding of migrants’ everyday mobilities as creative and life-sustaining strategies of social reproduction and labour conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Migration and Labour Turnover 1. Theorizing Labour Mobility Power 2. The Logistics of Living Labour 3. Enclaves of Differentiated Labour 4. The Field of Social Reproduction 5. Migrant Organizing Conclusion: Rethinking Worker Power Through Mobility

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Book SynopsisFrom Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challenged by workers? This book provides a radical interpretation of the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age, developing an invaluable approach that combines social movement studies and industrial relations. Using case studies taken from Europe and North America, it offers a comparative perspective on the mobilizing trajectories of different platform workers and their distinct organizational forms and action repertoires. This is an innovative book that offers a complete view of the new labour conflicts in the platform economy.Table of Contents1. Class and Contention: Social Movement Studies and Labour Studies 2. The New World of Digital Work: Structural Changes and Labour Recomposition 3. Challenges to Collective Action in Digital Work 4. Organizing the Collective Action of Digital Workers 5. Worker Collective Identity and Solidarity in Action in the Digital Age 6. Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: Some Conclusions

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Book SynopsisPublished in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work. Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant transformations that have taken place within the field over the past decade. It traces the historical development of IR, exploring its ongoing impact on our lives. The chapters delve into various aspects, including union organization and mobilization, the influence of new technology, and the examination of intersectionality in the context of work and employment. This is an invaluable resource for academics and students of employment and industrial relations, as well as HR professionals, trade union organizations and representatives.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Stephen Mustchin and Andy Hodder 2. Frames of Reference - Edmund Heery 3. Capitalist Crises and Industrial Relations Theorising – Guglielmo Meardi 4. ‘Embedded Bedfellows: Industrial Relations and (analytical) HRM - Tony Dundon and Adrian Wilkinson 5. Trade Unions in a Changing World of Work – Melanie Simms 6. Expanding the Boundaries of Industrial Relations as a Field of Study: The Role of ‘New Actors’ – Steve Williams 7. The State and Industrial Relations: Debates, Concerns, and Contradictions in the Forging of Regulatory Change in the United Kingdom – Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie 8. Labour Markets – Jill Rubery 9. Industrial Relations and Labour Law: Recovery of a Shared Tradition? – Ruth Dukes and Eleanor Kirk 10. Conflict and Industrial Action – Gregor Gall 11. Exploring ‘New’ Forms of Work Organisation: The Case of Parcel Delivery in the UK – Sian Moore, Kirsty Newsome and Stefanie Williamson 12. Intersectionality and Industrial Relations – Anne McBride and Jenny Rodriguez

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Book SynopsisBetween August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon's BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition. Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union's successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support and develop leadership. An essential toolkit for those navigating the complexities of evolving labour practices, with particular relevance for precarious workers and workplaces where access is limited.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents practical discussions of best practice techniques for job development along with reproducible forms for use in the field. The purpose of the book is to systematize the job development process by sharing replicable processes for transition-aged youth and adults with significant support needs and illustrating several urban and rural approaches to creative employment (including self-employment as an alternate strategy) that blend funding streams, utilize SSA Work Incentives, and capitalize on the hidden jobs in small neighborhood companies that are often overlooked in favor of large companies.

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Book SynopsisAs capitalism develops and state socialism disintegrates, divisions of labor are being reorganized, with major implications for the distribution of power in society. Yet the concept of division of labor has been one of the most neglected in contemporary political economy and social theory. Compared to class, gender or markets, it has typically been treated as a rather indifferent concept, part of the backdrop rather than one of the key forces of the economy and society. Dealing with the reworking of the division of labor in both practice and theory, and transcending the narrow boundaries of academic disciplines, the authors provide a new perspective on some of the most hotly debated issues in social science.Trade Review"A major work of geographic and social theory. This book is must reading for geographers, regional scientists, urban planners and all those concerned with the technological, organizational, economic, and geographic dimensions of technologically advanced societies." Professional Geographer "An exhaustive and thoughtful approach to the theoretical dilemmas facing the field of political economy today." American Journal of Sociology "The scope, approach and depth in this book make it essential to teachers, researchers, and advanced students in political economy, industrial sociology, economics, economic geography, industrial relations and human resource management." Labour and IndustryTable of Contents1. Gender, Class and the Division of Labor. 2. The Brave New World of the Service Economy: The Expanding Division of Labor. 3. The Expanding Horizons of Industrial Organization. 4. New Developments in Manufacturing: The Just-in-Time System. 5. Beyond Fordism and Flexibility. 6. Capitalism, Socialism and the Social Division of Labor.

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Book SynopsisThe politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order. "Drawing from his experiences in Chicago politics, first as a factory worker and later as an activist and academic, Ranney shows how the increasing mobility of capital, the easy availability of credit, and a changing government policies have reshaped the urban world where U.S. workers live their everyday lives. This is not the story of the interconnectedness of modern business, but rather the need for self-respecting people who bring home a weekly paycheck to see the common, global problems they face, and to work together to bring about meaningful change.Showing how globalization has led to specific local consequences for cities and the workers that inhabit them, David Ranney presents a means for taking stock of the effects of globalization; a look at these changes in labor markets; economic development politics; housing policy; and employment policies; and an organizing strategy for this new economic and social era.Trade Review"Global Decisions, Local Collisions is a solid, well-written, and well-substantiated argument with a number of case studies on topics of major interest. [It] adds new analysis that makes a real and important contribution."—Peter Marcuse, author of Globalizing Cities and Of States and Cities"Ranney's book should be of considerable interest and use to scholars working in the urban political economy and on the local impacts of the processes of global economic reorganization. His descriptions are lucid and well-argued. His most original contribution comes in deepening and advancing a sophisticated theoretical understanding of these processes through examination of the Chicago cases. This he does masterfully, and in doing so, makes what I believe will be a significant contribution to the debate."—Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research"This is an important book. The author brings to bear finely honed analytic skills and a command of the secondary literature combined with hands-on research and, crucially, a discussion of his own experiences as a worker in Chicago and as a political activist to understand the nature of the New World Order."—SAGE Race Relations Abastracts"[It] is a timely and important book. It resonates with contemporary debates and discussions in academia and beyond about the effect of global level changes on everyday life....it is an impressive and thoughtful addition to our understanding of the collusion of government policies and capital mobility in transforming people's lives."—Work and Occupations, February 2004"In his valuable recent book... Ranney provides a clear critique of investor-rights globalization, a lucid analysis of how it touches everyday lives, and offers sensible democratic alternatives to the specter of overwhelming corporate domination."—Z Magazine"This book contains some informative case studies."—The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"The significance of this book for globalization readers and activists is that the author does a superb job of linking the forces unleashed in a global world to struggles or collisions that one finds locally. The author's career is unique in that his perspective combines the insights of an academic with the instincts of one who has been engaged on the front line as a labor organizer and critic of global economic policy."—Policy Research Action Group (pdf)"...this book is an important study that should be of interest to scholars and professionals such as planners and economists working in the fields of political economy and community development. It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of globalization on our communities."—Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimeline1. Introduction2. Philosophical Perspectives3. The Evolution of a New World Order4. Manufacturing Collapses in Chicago5. The New World Order and Local Government: Chicago Politics and Economic Development6. Where Will Poor People Live?7. Jobs, Wages, and Trade in the New World Order8. Organizing to Combat the New World Order9. Implications and DirectionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women’s work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts’ labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain their “proper” place in society, and work environments were in fact gendered and class-based. Yet, these prescribed notions of class and gender were frequently challenged as women sought to improve their livelihoods by using everyday forms of negotiation including collective organizing, labor arbitration boards, letter writing, creating unions, assuming positions of confianza (“trustworthiness”), and by migrating to urban centers and/or crossing into Texas. Drawing extensively on bi-national archival sources, newspapers, and published records, Working Women into the Borderlands demonstrates convincingly how women’s labor contributions shaped the development of one of the most dynamic and contentious borderlands in the globe.

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Book SynopsisThe Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is the US labour market. The research contained in the present volume assess a number of issues about how well Hispanics are integrated into the US labour market, a major factor in the group’s economic status. The research makes important contributions to the existing body of research on the Hispanic population, and may be used by scholars and policy makers in better understanding the status of this important ethnic/racial group.

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Book SynopsisThe Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is the US labour market. The research contained in the present volume assess a number of issues about how well Hispanics are integrated into the US labour market, a major factor in the group’s economic status. The research makes important contributions to the existing body of research on the Hispanic population, and may be used by scholars and policy makers in better understanding the status of this important ethnic/racial group.

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Book SynopsisContinuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership was conceptualized as a follow-up to Breaking Into the All-Male Club: Female Professors of Educational Administration (Mertz, 2009), a book about and by many women who were the first women faculty admitted into departments of educational administration primarily in the 1970's and 1980's. This book offers narratives of those women new to the field of educational leadership and makes comparisons to those stories shared by the veteran women in the field to highlight both similarities and differences. Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership is a literary way to preserve and continue the tradition of the sharing/addition of voices to the field of educational leadership that was begun with Breaking Into the All-Male Club. It begs the question, ""If the women from Breaking Into the All-Male Club are ""firsts,"" ""pioneers,"" and ""groundbreakers,"" then who are we, the young and new women of the field? If the entrance of women into the field of educational leadership was threatening enough for the veteran women (and still is for many of the young and new women), then the addition of age and ethnicity as confounding factors has likely created a cacophony of dissonance forty years later! Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? represents a decade of stories (2002-2012) from young and new women to the field of educational leadership.

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Book SynopsisContinuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership was conceptualized as a follow-up to Breaking Into the All-Male Club: Female Professors of Educational Administration (Mertz, 2009), a book about and by many women who were the first women faculty admitted into departments of educational administration primarily in the 1970's and 1980's. This book offers narratives of those women new to the field of educational leadership and makes comparisons to those stories shared by the veteran women in the field to highlight both similarities and differences. Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership is a literary way to preserve and continue the tradition of the sharing/addition of voices to the field of educational leadership that was begun with Breaking Into the All-Male Club. It begs the question, ""If the women from Breaking Into the All-Male Club are ""firsts,"" ""pioneers,"" and ""groundbreakers,"" then who are we, the young and new women of the field? If the entrance of women into the field of educational leadership was threatening enough for the veteran women (and still is for many of the young and new women), then the addition of age and ethnicity as confounding factors has likely created a cacophony of dissonance forty years later! Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? represents a decade of stories (2002-2012) from young and new women to the field of educational leadership.

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Book SynopsisIn this richly illustrated book, Robert Macieski examines Lewis W. Hine's art and advocacy on behalf of child laborers as part of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) between 1909 and 1917. A ""social photographer"" -- as he called himself -- Hine created images that documented children at work throughout New England, making the case for their exploitation in the North as he had for rural working children in the South. Hine staged his images, highlighting particular types of labor in specific places: the ""newsies"" in Connecticut cities; sardine canners in Eastport, Maine; cranberry pickers in Cape Cod bogs; industrial homeworkers in Boston and Providence; and cotton textile workers throughout the region. His association with the NCLC connected him to a network of local and national reformers, social workers, and child welfare professionals, a broad coalition he supported in their fight to end this unethical labor practice. Macieski also chronicles Hine's efforts to mount major exhibitions that would help move public opinion against child labor.In Picturing Class, Macieski explores the historical context of Hine's photographs and the social worlds of his subjects. He offers a detailed analysis of many of the images, unearthing the stories behind the creation of these photographs and the lives of their subjects. In telling the story of these photographs, their creation, and their reception, Macieski demonstrates how Hine worked to advance an unvarnished picture of a rapidly changing region and the young workers at the center of this important shift.

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Book SynopsisIdentity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability, geography, and religion are integral to who we are and how we navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many people have yet to grasp this understanding and, as a result, so many of our work spaces lack appropriate responses to what this means. Therefore, Identity Intersectionalities, Mentoring, and Work?life (Im) balance: Educators (Re)negotiate the Personal, Professional, and Political, the most recent installment of the work?life balance series, uses an intersectional perspective to critically examine the concept of work?life balance.In an effort to build on the first book in the series, that focused on professors in educational leadership preparation programs, the authors here represent educators across the P?20 pipeline (primary and secondary schools in addition to higher education). This book is also unique in that it includes the voices of practitioners, students, and academics from a variety of related disciplines within the education profession, enabling the editors to include a diverse group of educators whose many voices speak to work?life balance in unique and very personal ways.Contributing authors challenge whether the concept of work?life balance might be conceived as a privileged –and even an impractical?endeavor. Yet, the bottom line is, conceptions of work?life balance are exceptionally complex and vary widely depending on one’s many roles and intersecting identities. Moreover, this book considers how mentoring is important to negotiating the politics that come with balancing work and life; especially, if those intersecting identities are frequently associated with unsolicited stereotypes that impede upon one’s academic, professional and personal pursuits in life.Finally, the editors argue that the power to authentically “be ourselves” is not only important to individual success, but also beneficial to fostering an institutional culture and climate that is truly supportive of and responsive to diversity, equity, and justice. Taken together, the voices in this book are a clarion call for P?12 and higher education professionals and organizations to envision how identity intersectionalities might become an every?day understanding, a normalized appreciation, and a customary commitment that translates into policy and practice.

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Book SynopsisIdentity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability, geography, and religion are integral to who we are and how we navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many people have yet to grasp this understanding and, as a result, so many of our work spaces lack appropriate responses to what this means. Therefore, Identity Intersectionalities, Mentoring, and Work?life (Im) balance: Educators (Re)negotiate the Personal, Professional, and Political, the most recent installment of the work?life balance series, uses an intersectional perspective to critically examine the concept of work?life balance.In an effort to build on the first book in the series, that focused on professors in educational leadership preparation programs, the authors here represent educators across the P?20 pipeline (primary and secondary schools in addition to higher education). This book is also unique in that it includes the voices of practitioners, students, and academics from a variety of related disciplines within the education profession, enabling the editors to include a diverse group of educators whose many voices speak to work?life balance in unique and very personal ways.Contributing authors challenge whether the concept of work?life balance might be conceived as a privileged –and even an impractical?endeavor. Yet, the bottom line is, conceptions of work?life balance are exceptionally complex and vary widely depending on one’s many roles and intersecting identities. Moreover, this book considers how mentoring is important to negotiating the politics that come with balancing work and life; especially, if those intersecting identities are frequently associated with unsolicited stereotypes that impede upon one’s academic, professional and personal pursuits in life.Finally, the editors argue that the power to authentically “be ourselves” is not only important to individual success, but also beneficial to fostering an institutional culture and climate that is truly supportive of and responsive to diversity, equity, and justice. Taken together, the voices in this book are a clarion call for P?12 and higher education professionals and organizations to envision how identity intersectionalities might become an every?day understanding, a normalized appreciation, and a customary commitment that translates into policy and practice.

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Book SynopsisLabour Beyond Cosatu is the fifth publication in the Taking Democracy Seriously project which started in 1994 and comprises of surveys of the opinions, attitudes and lifestyles of members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). This survey was conducted shortly before the elections in 2014, in a context in which government economic policy had not fundamentally shifted to the left and the massacre of 34 mineworkers at Marikana by the South African Police Service had fundamentally shaken the labour landscape, with mineworkers not only striking against their employers, but also their union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Cosatu leaders had started to openly criticise levels of corruption in the State, while a ‘tectonic shift’ took place when the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was expelled from Cosatu at the end of 2014.In its analysis of the survey, Labour Beyond Cosatu shows that Cosatu, fragmented and weakened through fi ssures in its alliance with the African National Congress, is no longer the only dominant force infl uencing South Africa’s labour landscape. Contributors also examine aspects such as changing patterns of class; workers’ incomes and their lifestyles; workers’ relationship to civil society movements and service delivery protests; and the politics of male power and privilege in trade unions.The trenchant analysis in Labour Beyond Cosatu exhibits fiercely independent and critically engaged labour scholarship, in the face of shifting alliances currently shaping the contestation between authoritarianism and democracy.Trade ReviewLabour Beyond Cosatu goes well beyond the previous volumes of the Taking Democracy Seriously project in some of its sorties, and is not shy of pulling its punches in what is now a highly charged environment. Deeply sympathetic to the project of organised labour yet highly critical of its present trajectory, this collection deserves to attract wide attention internationally as well as domestically."" — Roger Southall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg""South Africa’s working class movement is still powerful, but pressurised and polarised due to major shifts in its structure, base and forms of struggle. This timely, rigorously researched collection draws attention to key developments within Cosatu and beyond ... Highly recommended."" — Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University, South AfricaTable of Contents Preface Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko Tshoaedi Chapter 1 Democracy and the rupture in South Africa’s labour landscape Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko Tshoaedi Chapter 2 Research in a highly charged environment: Taking Democracy Seriously, 2014 Ntsehiseng Nthejane, Sandla Nomvete, Boitumelo Malope and Bianca Tame Chapter 3 The social character of labour politics Ari Sitas Chapter 4 Is Cosatu still a working-class movement? Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff and Ntsehiseng Nthejane Chapter 5 Labour aristocracy or marginal labour elite? Cosatu members’ income, other sources of livelihood and household support Christine Bischoff and Bianca Tame Chapter 6 The politics of alliance and the 2014 elections Janet Cherry, Nkosinathi Jikeka and Tumi Malope Chapter 7 Cosatu, service delivery, civil society and the politics of community Janet Cherry Chapter 8 The politics of male power and privilege in trade unions: Understanding sexual harassment in Cosatu Malehoko Tshoaedi Chapter 9 Internal democracy in Cosatu: Achievements and challenges Johann Maree Chapter 10 Public sector unions in Cosatu Christine Bischoff and Johann Maree Chapter 11 Are Cosatu’s public sector unions too powerful? Johann Maree and Christine Bischoff Chapter 12 Labour beyond Cosatu, other federations and independent unions Andries Bezuidenhout

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Book SynopsisMore than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family.Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour and interaction that persist to the present day, and are still evident in the predicament of the black female domestic worker.To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include André Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoë Wicomb.. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships.Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.Trade ReviewDrawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Like Family provides rich insights into the `contact zone’ of domestic service that paradoxically involves both intimacy and distance. In doing so, Jansen deepens our understanding of how the institution both reflects and reproduces the savage inequalities on which our society continues to be based. — Jacklyn Cock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and author of Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of ExploitationTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction Searching the archive Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape – Precursors to the culture of domestic work Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers – Interviews, stories and a novel Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in the 50th anniversary year of the 1973 Durban strikes, Labour Disrupted honours this milestone by reflecting on the past and the future of labour, primarily in South Africa but also globally. It focuses on how South Africa’s lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic further exposed key contradictions and challenges that labour movements face. The contributions include a diverse range of topics by those actively engaged in the labour movement, who tackle a number of thorny issues: from redefining democracy in South Africa, to experiences of inclusiveness (or lack thereof) in workplace environments by women, young people, migrant workers, LGBTI people and people living with disabilities. They address contemporary issues related to the use of technology and the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the youth and the working class, and the challenge of skills development and restructuring in the workplace. Labour Disrupted debates new forms of organising and labour movement alliances required to address issues of social justice in education, health and community solidarity, and exposes the precariousness of union organisation under the brutal forces of globalisation.Table of Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Disruptions and New Directions in South African Labour Studies – Andries Bezuidenhout, Malehoko Tshoaedi and Christine Bischoff Chapter 1 Fragmented Labour Movement, Fragmented Labour Studies: New Directions for Research and Theory – Lucien van der Walt PART I CHANGING SOLIDARITIES Chapter 2 Patriarchal Collusions and Women’s Marginalisation in Mining Unions – Asanda-Jonas Benya Chapter 3 Youth, Trade Unions and the Challenges of Employment Christine Bischoff Chapter 4 Community Health Care Workers in Gauteng: Volunteerism as a Band-Aid for Unemployment – Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama and Aisha Lorgat PART II TECHNOLOGY AND WORK Chapter 5 Trade Unions, Technology and Skills – Siphelo Ngcwangu Chapter 6 Labour Process, Hegemony and Technology: ‘Sanitised Workplace Orders’ at Two South African Mines – John Mashayamombe Chapter 7 Trade Union Responses to Production Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Mondli Hlatshwayo Chapter 8 Emotional Labour in Government Frontline Work: The Burden of Public Call Centre Workers – Babalwa Magoqwana PART III NEW FORMS OF ORGANISING Chapter 9 Why Other Spaces Matter: The Case of Mamelodi Train Sector – Mpho Mmadi Chapter 10 Social Capital Unionism and Empowerment: A Case of Solidarity Union at ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark – Jantjie Xaba Chapter 11 Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony and the Role of Social Movements – Janet Cherry Chapter 12 Competing Interests: Investment Companies and the Future of Labour – Sandla Nomvete Chapter 13 Going Global, Building Local: A Southern Perspective on the Future of Labour Internationalism – Edward Webster PART IV LABOUR AND LOCKDOWN Chapter 14 The Labour Movement’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic – Christine Bischoff Conclusion Questions, Answers and New Directions – Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff and Malehoko Tshoaedi Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous – responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system. Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, championing climate justice in mining-affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women’s grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse PART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha Hargreaves Chapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin Azeez PART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge Konik Chapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock Chapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane Cherry PART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda Benya Chapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-Dikgole Chapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi Sibeko Chapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 – Christine Bischoff PART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas Satgar Conclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThese Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one’s spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored.Nkosi takes as his starting point the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa, which came about as a result of startling rumours that potatoes dug out of the soil from the farms in the Bethal district of Mpumalanga were in fact human heads. Journalists such as Ruth First and Henry Nxumalo went to Bethal to uncover these stories and revealed horrific accounts of abuse and routine killings of farmworkers by white Afrikaners. The workers were disenfranchised Black people who were forced to work on these farms for alleged ‘crimes’ against National Party state laws, such as the failure to carry passbooks. In reading this violence from the perspectives of both the Black worker and the white farmer, Nkosi deploys the device of the eye to look at his research subjects and make sense of how the past informs the present. His argument is that the violence against Black farmworkers was not only on the exploitation of cheap labour, but also an anxiety white farmers felt about their settler-colonial appropriation of land. This anxiety, Nkosi argues, is pervasive in current heated public debates on the land question and calls for ‘land expropriation without compensation’. Furthermore, the dispossession of Black people from their land cannot be overcome until there is a recognition of the dead and restless spirits of the land, and a spiritual return to home for Black people’s ancestors. Until such time, the cycles of violence will persist.This book will be of interest to academics and scholars working in the area of land and workers’ struggles but also to the general reader who wants to gain a deeper understanding of redress and social justice on multiple levels.Table of Contents Prologue: Emazambaneni: the land of terror Chapter 1 The spectre of the human potato Chapter 2 Whose eyes are looking at history? Chapter 3 Bethal, the House of God Chapter 4 Violence: the white farmers’ fears erupt Chapter 5 These eyes are looking for a home Chapter 6 Bethal today Chapter 7 Our eschatological future Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisIn the midst of the freezing winter of 1978–79, more than 2,000 strikes, infamously coined the “Winter of Discontent,” erupted across Britain as workers rejected the then Labour Government’s attempts to curtail wage increases with an incomes policy. Labour’s subsequent electoral defeat at the hands of the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher ushered in an era of unprecedented political, economic, and social change for Britain. A potent social myth also quickly developed around the Winter of Discontent, one where “bloody-minded” and “greedy” workers brought down a sympathetic government and supposedly invited the ravages of Thatcherism upon the British labour movement. 'The Winter of Discontent' provides a re-examination of this crucial series of events in British history by charting the construction of the myth of the Winter of Discontent. Highlighting key strikes and bringing forward the previously-ignored experiences of female, black, and Asian rank-and-file workers along-side local trade union leaders, the author places their experiences within a broader constellation of trade union, Labour Party, and Conservative Party changes in the 1970s, showing how striking workers’ motivations become much more textured and complex than the “bloody-minded” or “greedy” labels imply. The author further illustrates that participants’ memories represent a powerful force of “counter-memory,” which for some participants, frame the Winter of Discontent as a positive and transformative series of events, especially for the growing number of female activists. Overall, this fascinating book illuminates the nuanced contours of myth, memory, and history of the Winter of Discontent.Trade ReviewReviews 'The most comprehensive, balanced and persuasive analysis of the Winter of Discontent so far available.'Pat Thane'An important book of considerable scholarship and historical technique, offering valuable alternative perspectives and significant insights into the industrial unrest of the British ‘winter of discontent’.' John Shepherd, University of Huddersfield'Lopez’s study focuses – as the title suggests – on the creation of the myths that surrounded the Winter of Discontent, and their subsequent repackaging and reiteration in the 1980s and beyond. Utilising a number of previously unseen sources, especially some stimulating and thought-provoking interviews with a number of those who participated on various sides of the 1978/9 industrial disputes, the study provides an important addition to the ever-growing historiography of late-twentieth-century British political history.' Andrew Edwards, Labour History Review'The book makes possible a significantly more nuanced understanding, both of the ‘lived experience’ of those who participated in industrial action and of the dire economic conditions from which the strikes emerged. The result is a valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on the 1970s.'Robert Saunders, Twentieth Century British History'Martin López looks beyond the common, monolithic understanding of the period to examine the complex, underlying forces that affected the strikes and their reception by Labour and Conservative politicians, the media and the British public. Her book traces the ways in which understandings and experiences of gender were embedded within workers’ lives and the increasing gendering of trade union spaces, which is often overlooked in retellings of the event. ... this is a valuable and important book for people interested in British labour, economic and political history, as well as gender and transnational feminist studies. Martin López deepens and enriches previous scholarly understandings of the period.' Laura Y. Merrell, Feminist ReviewTable of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Foreword by Sheila Rowbotham Introduction 1. The Ghosts of the Past: Myth and the Winter of Discontent 2. Winter of Discontent:Causes and Context 3. The Floodgates Open: The Strike at Ford 4. ‘The Second Stalingrad:’ The Road Haulage Strikes 5. ‘Freezers of Corpses and Sea Burials:’ The Liverpool Gravediggers’ Strike 6. Unseemly Behaviour: Women and Local Authority Strikes 7. ‘Celia’s Gate’ and Strikes in the National Health Service 8. Crosscurrents of Memory: Myth, Memory, and Counter-Memory 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe response of European Union institutions to the Eurocrisis demonstrated their fragile and failing commitment to the role of social policy in advancing European economies and societies. The present volume, exploring the positive scope for such policies, is therefore timely and welcome. While sharply critical of much of what goes on at both EU and several national levels, the authors are constructive in tone and point the way to sustainable alternatives to neoliberalism.'- Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK and External Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, GermanyHighly valued by its citizens, the European social model is a defining feature of Europe and the European Union yet is under threat from the effects of both globalisation and the aftermath of the financial crisis. The Sustainability of the European Social Model addresses this issue in light of the current crisis that changed the landscape. It examines how social Europe responds to uncertainties that affect its development from a range of different disciplinary perspectives.The book begins by analysing interactions between EU law and national policies from a comparative perspective, highlighting the legal, social and institutional complexities that constrain the development of 'social Europe' It assesses the sustainability of EU law and policies in the areas of pensions and employment policy and then focuses on two crucial areas of EU social policy: the regulations on working time and the provisions of social services of general interest. The expert contributors compare the experiences of a range of Member States (and also bring in external comparison) to explore topics such as ageing, job quality, social protection and employment policies, social dialogue and the relationship between the various methods of European policymaking such as the 'community method' and the Open Method of Co-ordination. The analyses show that sustainability of the European social model will depend heavily on addressing failings in European governance.Insightful and comprehensive, this book is a detailed and timely resource for academic researchers. Its practical, policy-oriented insights into important issues in social and employment policy, as well as into European policymaking itself, will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers.Contributors: J.-C. Barbier, I. Begg, F. Colomb, C. Erhel, J. Gautié, B. Gazier, M. Hartlapp, M. Keune, A. Koukiadaki, P. Marginson, N. Ramos Martín, R. Rogowski, T. Sirovátka, E. Sol, M. van der VosTrade Review‘The response of European Union institutions to the Eurocrisis demonstrated their fragile and failing commitment to the role of social policy in advancing European economies and societies. The present volume, exploring the positive scope for such policies, is therefore timely and welcome. While sharply critical of much of what goes on at both EU and several national levels, the authors are constructive in tone and point the way to sustainable alternatives to neoliberalism.’ -- Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany‘In summary, this collective research has the merit of giving the reader a broad vision of the state of EU influence on specific aspects of social law and redistributive policies. The usefulness of the book is increased by a complete Table of Cases and a well-structured Index. This book is undoubtedly valuable for academics and lawyers interested in the evolution of EU social and economic integration.’ -- Common Market Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: The Sustainability of the European Social Model Jean-Claude Barbier, Ralf Rogowski and Fabrice Colomb PART 1 EU LAW AND GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES 1. The Janus Face of EU Law - A Sociological Perspective on European Law Making and its Influence on Social Policy in the EU Jean-Claude Barbier and Fabrice Colomb 2. EU Governance of Sustainable Development: Social and Environmental Policies Iain Begg 3. European Social Dialogue as Multi-level Governance: Towards more Autonomy and New Dependencies Paul Marginson and Maarten Keune 4. EU Governance on Ageing: Older, Wider and more Influential than the OMCs Miriam Hartlapp 5. In Search of a European Employment Strategy: The Construction of the ‘Job Quality’ Agenda as an Illustrative Case Christine Erhel, Jérôme Gautié and Bernard Gazier PART II THE REGULATION OF WORKING TIME IN EUROPE 6. Sustainability and Uncertainty in Governing European Employment Law - The Community Method as Instrument of Governance: The Case of the EU Working Time Directive Ralf Rogowski 7. The EU Working Time Directive in the Czech Republic Tomáš Sirovátka 8. The Unexpected Consequences of the Application of the EU Working Time Directive in France Fabrice Colomb 9. Governance of EU Labour Law: Implementation of the EU’s Working Time Directive in the Netherlands Els Sol and Nuria Ramos Martín 10. Implementation of the EU Working Time Directive in the United Kingdom Ralf Rogowski PART III SOCIAL SERVICES OF GENERAL (ECONOMIC) INTEREST IN EUROPE 11. Legal Uncertainty in Social Services: A Threat to National Social Protection Systems? Jean-Claude Barbier 12. Services of General Interest, State Aid and Social Housing in the Netherlands Els Sol and Mara van der Vos 13. The Impact of EU Regulation on Social Services of General Interest in the United Kingdom Aristea Koukiadaki 14. Social Services of General Interest in the Czech Republic: Towards Poorly Regulated Markets Tomáš Sirovátka 15. Social Services of General Interest in France: The Uncertain Impact of the Increasing Reach of EU Law Jean-Claude Barbier Index

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Book Synopsis'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material 'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speci?c institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the ?eld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the challenges within this ?eld.'- British Journal of Industrial RelationsWith the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time.The first part of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour, homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this book will appeal to students, academics and those generally interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J. Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K. Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. YunTrade Review'Precarious work is on the rise in the Global South and North alike. This important volume provides interesting examples about the hardship of long working hours, poverty wages and dangerous employment conditions. And yet, workers are not only victims but also agents with possibilities of resistance. The book points to the potential of a cross-border movement of the dispossessed based on a re-imagined role of the labour movement. A must read for everyone interested in resistance to capitalist exploitation.' --Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK'As the world becomes increasingly global, labor's response must be as well. As ''standard'' employment declines, and workers come to see ''flexibility'' as a four-letter word, the future of the labor movement hinges on the ability to develop creative responses to precarious labor. Anyone interested in stimulating examples of what is happening to employment and ways to challenge precarious work needs to read Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work.' --Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts Amherst'A clear and engaging global overview of the extent and nature(s) of precarious work and the link between such precarity and neoliberalism is provided by the editors' Introduction. . . I would thoroughly recommend.' --Journal of Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism, Precarious Work and Remaking the Geography of Global Capitalism Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 2. The Growth and Organization of a Precariat: Working in the Clothing Industry in Johannesburg’s Inner City Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster 3. Bounded Mobilizations: Informal Unionism and Secondary Shaming Amongst Immigrant Temp Workers in Chicago Sébastien Chauvin 4. Homebased Work and New Ways of Organizing in the Era of Globalization Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate 5. Constructing Violence and Resistance: The Political Economy of the Construction Industry and Labour Subcontracting System in Post-Socialist China Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin 6. Nature and Insecurity in South Africa Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert 7. At the Cutting Edge: Precarious Work in Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Industry Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 8. Organizing Across a Fragmented Labour Force: Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work in Korean Auto Companies Aelim Yun 9. Closures and Openings: The Politics of Place and Space in Resisting Corporate Restructuring Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert 10. Sweatshop Citizenship, Precariousness and Organizing Building Cleaners Luis L.M. Aguiar 11. Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards Mark Thomas Conclusion: Towards a Movement of the Dispossessed? Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod Index

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Book SynopsisThe editors' substantive introduction and the specially commissioned chapters in this Handbook explore the emergence of transnational labour law and its contested contours by juxtaposing the expansion of traditional legal methods with the proliferation of contemporary alternatives such as indicators, framework agreements and consumer-led initiatives. Key international (ILO, IMF, OECD) and regional (EU, IACHR, SADC) institutions are studied for their coverage of such classic topics as freedom of association, equality, and sectoral labour standard-setting, as well as for the space they provide for dialogue. The volume underscores transnational labour law's capacity to build hard and soft law bridges to migration, climate change and development. The volume roots transnational labour law in a counter-hegemonic struggle for social justice.Bringing together the scholarship of 41 experts from around the globe, this book encompasses and goes beyond the role of international and regional organizations in relation to labour standards and their enforcement, providing new insights into debates around freedom of association, equality and the elimination of forced labour and child labour. By including the influence of consumers in supply chains alongside the more traditional actors in this field such as trade unions, it combines a range of perspectives both theoretical and contextual. Several chapters interrogate whether transnational labour law can challenge domestic labour law's traditional exclusions through expansive approaches to equality.The volume moves beyond WTO linkage debates of the past to consider emerging developments toward social regionalism. Several chapters explore and challenge public and private international aspects of transnational labour law, revealing some fragmentation alongside dynamic experimentation and normative settling. The book argues that 'social justice' is at least as important to the project of transnational labour law today as it was to the establishment of international labour law.Academics, students and practitioners in the fields of labour law, international law, human rights, political science, transnational studies, and corporate social responsibility, will benefit from this critical resource, given the book s eye-opening examination of labour governance in the contemporary economy.Contributors: Z. Adams, P.C. Albertson, J. Allain, R.-M.B. Antoine, A. Asante, P.H. Bamu, M. Barenberg, J.R. Bellace, G. Bensusán, A. Blackett, L. Boisson de Chazournes, S. Charnovitz, B. Chigara, K. Claussen, L. Compa, S. Cooney, S. Deakin, J.M. Diller, D.J. Doorey, R.-C. Drouin, P.M. Dumas, F.C. Ebert, C. Estlund, A. van Hoek, J. Hunt, K. Kolben, C. La Hovary, B. Langille, J. López López, I. Martin, F. Maupain, F. Milman-Sivan, R.S. Mudarikwa, A. Nononsi, T. Novitz, C. Sheppard, A.A. Smith, A. Suktahnkar, J.-M.Thouvenin, A. Trebilcock, R.ZimmerTrade Review'The chapters in this thoroughly useful reference book on current developments and challenges in TLL provide very thoughtful, up-to-date and "to the point" commentary and insights.' --Alan Boulton, Monash University and Fair Work Commission, Australia'The list of 41 authors of this Handbook reads like a roll-call of the rising generation of scholars of labour law as well as a number of distinguished old hands. This is not a conventional textbook on transnational labour law but a series of short and stimulating essays on important current issues. It provides an invaluable guide for all those who want to think and write about the transnational influences that shape the modern world of work.' --Sir Bob Hepple QC FBA, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I CONCEPTUALIZING TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW 1. Conceptualizing Transnational Labour Law Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock PART II TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LAW A Transnational Labour Law’s Methods 2. Global Organizing and Domestic Constraints Ashwini Sukthankar 3. Corporate Governance Structures and Practices: From Ordeal to Opportunities and Challenges for Transnational Labour Law Isabelle Martin 4. A ‘Dialogic’ Approach In Perspective Laurence Boisson De Chazournes 5. International Labour Indicators: Conceptual and Normative Snares Mark Barenberg 6. Due Diligence on Labour Issues – Opportunities and Limits of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Anne Trebilcock B Challenging Austerity, Facing Development: The North-South Challenge to Transnational Labour Law 7. Structural Adjustment, Economic Governance and Social Policy in a Regional Context: The Case of the Eurozone Crisis Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin 8. International Financial Institutions’ Approaches to Labour Law: The Case of the International Monetary Fund Franz Christian Ebert 9. Racism and the Regulation of Migrant Labour Adrian A. Smith 10. China’s Challenge to Labour Law in both the Global North and the Global South Sean Cooney 11. Anti-Austerity Activism Strategies: Combining Protest and Litigation in Spain Julia López López PART III TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LABOUR LAW A Freedom of Association in the Specificity of Labour Law 12. Pushback on the Right to Strike: Resisting the Thickening of Soft Law Janice R. Bellace 13. The Right to Take Collective Action: Prospects for Change in European Court of Justice Case Law in Light of European Court of Human Rights Decisions Reingard Zimmer 14. Freedom of Association in Deliberative Spaces: The ILO Credentials Committee Faina Milman-Sivan 15. Freedom Of Association In International Framework Agreements Renée-Claude Drouin 16. Transnational Labour Law and Collective Autonomy for Marginalized Workers: Reflections on Decent Work for Domestic Workers Adelle Blackett B On Human Rights and Equality: Does Transnational Labour Law Provide Spaces and Vehicles to Challenge Domestic Labour Law’s Exclusions? 17. Inclusive Equality and New Approaches to Discrimination in Transnational Labour Law Colleen Sheppard 18. Working Together Transnationally Cynthia Estlund 19. Can Human Rights Based Labour Policy Improve the Labour Rights Situation in Developing Countries? A Look at Mexico and the Countries of Central America Graciela Bensusán 20. Constitutionalising Labour in the Inter-American System on Human Rights Rose-Marie Belle Antoine C Emerging Roles for the ILO as an Actor in Transnational Labour Law 21. ILO Normative Action In Its Second Century: Escaping The Double Bind? Francis Maupain 22. The ILO’s Supervisory Bodies’ ‘Soft Law Jurisprudence’ Claire La Hovary 23. Pluralism and Privatization in Transnational Labour Regulation: Experience of the International Labour Organization Janelle M. Diller 24. Emergent Maritime Labour Law: Possible Implications for other Transnational Labour Fields Aimée Asante and Ben Chigara PART IV TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS TRANSNATIONAL A Thickening Soft Law? ‘Privatising’ or Infusing Transnational Labour Law with Public International Law Norms? 25. Transnational Private Labour Regulation, Consumer-Citizenship and the Consumer Imaginary Kevin Kolben 26. Thickening Soft Law Through Consumocratic Law: A Pragmatic Approach P. Martin Dumas 27. Diffusion and Leveraging of Transnational Labour Norms by the OECD Jean-Marc Thouvenin 28. The Use of Arbitration to Decide International Labour Issues Kathleen Claussen B Beyond WTO Linkage: Emerging Directions and Social Regionalism 29. What The World Trade Organization Learned From The International Labour Organization Steve Charnovitz 30. Harnessing the Governance Capacity of the European Union: Transnational Labour Law Responses to the Exploitation of Migrant Agricultural Workers Jo Hunt 31. Private International Law Rules for Transnational Employment: Reflections from the European Union Aukje Van Hoek 32. Social Regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The International, Regional and National Interplay of Labour Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Pamhidai H. Bamu and Rutendo Mudarikwa 33. Labour Rights and Trade Agreements in the Americas Paula Church Albertson and Lance Compa C The Transnational Challenge to the Regulation of Labour as a Factor of Production: on Commodification 34. Trading in Services – Commodities and Beneficiaries Tonia Novitz 35. The Curious Incident of the ILO, Myanmar and Forced Labour Brian Langille 36. The Implications of Preparatory Works for the Debate Regarding Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour Jean Allain 37. Child Labour and Fragile States in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on Regional and International Responses Aristide Nononsi 38. A Transnational Law of Just Transitions for Climate Change and Labour David J. Doorey Index

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Book SynopsisWith the rapid growth of Asian economies and growing work, family and personal life demands, this book addresses a critical topic. The well-being of societies, families and workers is of increasing social and economic importance. The book will be a valuable addition for anyone who wants to understand the similarities and differences in how work-life dynamics are unfolding across Asia.'- Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, US'Through its focus on work-life balance in Asian societies this much needed collection, edited by Luo Lu and Cary L. Cooper, addresses a significant omission in the field. Since the 1980s, research on the balance between employment and family commitments has grown massively. Yet most studies are based on Euro-American samples. The Handbook of Research on Work-Life Balance in Asia shifts this emphasis on Europe and the USA, mapping how work-life balance is negotiated within Asian societies such as China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam. It offers state-of-the-art views on how work-life balance in Asia is experienced from a range of angles: individual, organizational and societal. In so doing, it contributes important new perspectives to the work-life balance field.'- Caroline Gatrell, Lancaster University Management School, UKIn Asian societies, work and family issues are only recently beginning to gain attention. The pressure of rapid social change and increasing global competition is compounded by the long hours work culture, especially in the Pan-Confucian societies such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. Furthermore, with the rising female labor participation, more and more Asian employees are now caught between the demands of work and family life.The aim of this Handbook is, thus, to shed new light on work life balance in Asia by adopting a distinct Asian perspective in theory, research and practice. It provides a state-of-the-art collection of evidence from studies, and empirical research, to explain why and how work and family interference arises and affects well-being for Asian adults; and further address the topics through both a mono-cultural and cross-cultural analysis, with the help of expert contributors in the field.Students and scholars will find the comprehensive and updated review of empirical evidence useful in their research. The book also provides a thoughtful reflection on governmental and organizational family-friendly practices in major Asian societies, which will be of interest to practitioners in the field of management, business and investing.Contributors: P. Brough, D.E. Caughlin, C.-L. Chang, F.M. Cheung, E. Cho, C.L. Cooper, T. Kalliath, C.-W. Koh, Y. Li, H. Liu, C.-q. Lu, J. Lu, L. Lu, N.D. Mohd Mahudin, N.M. Noor, M. O'Driscoll, A. Shimazu, O.-L. Siu, J. Sun, H.-L.S. Tien, C. Timms, J.F. Uen, Y.-C. Wang, J.-M. Woo, T. Wu, X.-m. XuTrade Review‘With the rapid growth of Asian economies and growing work, family and personal life demands, this book addresses a critical topic. The well-being of societies, families and workers is of increasing social and economic importance. The book will be a valuable addition for anyone who wants to understand the similarities and differences in how work-life dynamics are unfolding across Asia.’ -- Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, US‘Through its focus on work–life balance in Asian societies this much needed collection, edited by Luo Lu and Cary L. Cooper, addresses a significant omission in the field. Since the 1980s, research on the balance between employment and family commitments has grown massively. Yet most studies are based on Euro-American samples. The Handbook of Research on Work–Life Balance in Asia shifts this emphasis on Europe and the USA, mapping how work–life balance is negotiated within Asian societies such as China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam. It offers state-of-the-art views on how work–life balance in Asia is experienced from a range of angles: individual, organizational and societal. In so doing, it contributes important new perspectives to the work–life balance field.’ -- Caroline Gatrell, Lancaster University Management School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Cary, L. Cooper PART I: NEGOTIATING WORK-LIFE BALANCE AT THE INDIVIDUAL- AND FAMILIAL-LEVEL: THE ASIAN PERSPECTIVE 2. “I Love my Work, but I Love my Family More”-Testing a Cultural Theory of Work and Family in Taiwan Luo Lu 3. Work-family Conflicts and Coping Strategies in Asia Hsiu-Lan Shelley Tien and Yu-Chen Wang 4. Heavy Work Investment and Work-family Balance Among Japanese Dual-earner Couples Akihito Shimazu 5. Crossover Effects in Work-family Interface Between Chinese Dual-earner Couples Huimin Liu and Fanny M. Cheung 6. A Closer Look at Work-family Conflict: The Early Childrearing Experience of Dual-earner Couples in Urban China Jiafang Lu 7. Work-home Interference and Employees’ Well-being and Performance: The Moderating Role of Chinese Work Value Chang-qin Lu, Xiao-min Xu, and David E. Caughlin 8. Relationships among Work-family Conflict, Gender Role Attitude and Job Burnout Yuan Li and Jianmin Sun PART II: NEGOTIATING WORK-LIFE BALANCE AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIETAL LEVELS: THE ASIAN PERSPECTIVE 9. Generational Differences in Work-life Balance Values in Asia: The Case of the Greater China Region Workers Ting Wu and Jin Feng Uen 10. Research on Family-friendly Employment Policies and Practices in Hong Kong: Implications for Work-family Interface Oi-Ling Siu 11. Work-life Balance Policies in Malaysia: Theory and Practice Noraini M. Noor and Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin 12. The Policies to Support Work-life Balance and the Impact of Work Stress on the Family Life among Emotional Labourers in Korea Jong-Min Woo PART III: NEGOTIATING WORK-LIFE BALANCE: THE CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE 13. Comparative Analysis of Work Life Balance Policies and Work Practices in Taiwan and Japan Chiu-Lan Chang 14. Governmental Interventions and Social Re-engineering to Facilitate Work-life Balance: Singapore and South Korea Eunae Cho and Chee-Wee Koh 15. Cross-cultural Impact of Work-life Balance on Health and Work Outcomes Carolyn Timms, Paula Brough, Oi Ling Siu, Michael O'Driscoll and Thomas Kalliath Index

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Book SynopsisThe workforce is aging as people live longer and healthier lives, and mandatory retirement has become a relic of the past. Though workforces have always contained both younger and older employees the age range today has expanded, and the generational gap has become more distinct. This book advocates the need for talented employees of all ages as a way to prevent potential skill shortages and considers both the challenges and opportunities that these changes raise for individual organizations.The expert contributors discuss benefits including greater employee diversity with regards to knowledge, skills experience and perspectives, as well as challenges involving potential generational tensions, stereotypes and age biases. They further place an emphasis on initiatives to create generation-friendly workplaces; these involve fostering lifelong learning, tackling age stereotypes and biases, employing reverse mentoring where younger employees mentor older employees, and offering older individuals career options including phased retirement, bridge employment and encore careers.This wide-reaching book will be of use to academics, PhD students, human resource specialists, managers and government policy makers interested in the aging and multigenerational workforce.Contributors: A.-S.G. Antoniou, B. Baltes, J. Benson, S. Bisom-Rapp, R.J. Burke, L. Calvano, D. Campbell, C.L. Cooper, J.B. Cunningham, M. Dalla, J. Field, L. Fiksenbaum, A. Furnham, E.R. Greenglass, B.M. Hughes, J.K.Q. Katter, J. Kroeker-Hall, L.A. Marchiondo, J. McGinnis-Johnson, T. McNamara, D.M. McPhee, E.S.W. Ng, M. Pitt-Catsouphes, S. Sandhu, M. Sargeant, S. Sastrowardoyo, F. Schlosser, C. Scott-Young, S. Sweet, G. Thrasher, K. ZabelTrade Review'[T]he topics addressed are highly relevant and will appeal to both workforce practitioners and academic researchers' --Jaya Soni, Ph.D., International Social Science Review'The Multi-generational and Aging Workforce provides a much needed comprehensive review of the causes and consequences of the demographic reality facing organizations of all types today. This edited volume presents an in-depth analysis and understanding of this demographic phenomenon. Most importantly, the implications, opportunities and challenges facing organizations and management with respect to talent management, leadership development, organizational culture and performance, and many other topics, are thoroughly and insightfully discussed.' --Mitch Rothstein, University of Western Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: PART I SETTING THE STAGE 1. Managing an Aging and Multi-generational Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities Ronald J.Burke PART II UNDERSTANDING THE LARGER CONTEXT 2. Unemployment in the Digital Age Adrian Furnham 3. Surviving in Difficult Economic Times: Relationship between Economic Factors, Self-esteem and Psychological Distress in University Students Esther R. Greenglass, Joana K.Q. Katter, Lisa Fiksenbaum and Brian M. Hughes 4. Economic Crisis, Recession and Youth Unemployment: Causes and Consequences Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou and Marina Dalla 5. Cause, Effect and Solution? The Uneasy Relationship between Older Age Bias and Age Discrimination Law Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant Part III UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF YOUNGER EMPLOYEES 6. Millenials: Who are they, How are they Different, and Why Should We Care? Eddy S.W. Ng and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson 7. Complexity in Multigenerational Organizations: A Socio-political Perspective Sukhbir Sandhu, John Benson, Saras Sastrowardoyo and Christina Scott-Young PART IV UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF OLDER EMPLOYEES 8. Balancing Eldercare and Work Lisa Calvano 9. Motivational Goals and Competencies of Older Workers who Re-engaged in the Workforce J. Barton Cunningham, Diana Campbell and Jennifer Kroeker-Hall 10. Resilience at Work for Older Employees Gregory Thrasher, Keith Zabel and Boris Baltes 11. Age Stereotypes and Discrimination Lisa A. Marchiondo 12. Meeting the Needs of an Older Population and an Aging Workforce Ronald J. Burke 13 Retaining Aging Workers in the Workplace – Stakeholder Initiatives Deborah M. McPhee and Francine Schlosser Part V CREATING THE AGE-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE 14. Lifelong Learning and the Multigenerational Workforce John Field 15. Workplace Learning: Vital at all Ages Ronald J. Burke 16. Leveraging an Aging and Multigenerational Workforce Ronald J. Burke 17. Getting a Good Fit for Older Employees Marci Pitt-Catsouphes, Tay McNamara and Stephen Sweet Index

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Book SynopsisEurope has become a dominant frame for the generation, regulation and perception of social inequalities. This trend was solidified by the current economic crisis, which is characterised by increasing inequalities between central and peripheral countries and groups. By analysing the double polarisation between winners and losers of the crisis; the segmentation of labour markets; and the perceived quality of life in Europe, this book contributes to a better understanding of patterns and dynamics of inequality in an integrated Europe.The contributions from experts in the field offer a multi-level perspective. They explore links between objective inequalities and subjective perceptions and frames of reference. They combine the analysis of growing inequalities between different social groups and between central and peripheral countries. Analysis of unemployment and income inequality is based on European-wide micro datasets and the editor argues for both European and national frames of reference for analysis of unemployment and income inequality.Offering new insights on the increasing unemployment and income inequalities in Europe before and during the current financial and Eurozone crisis this is a vital text. Anyone interested in the challenges of social cohesion in Europe will find this book a rich, innovative resource.Contributors include: F. Buttler, M. Heidenreich, C. Ingensiep, S. Israel, J. Preunkert, C. Reimann,Trade ReviewExploring Inequality in Europe marks a major advance in the sociology of European integration. Heidenreich's research group moves well beyond methodologically nationalist analyses of income inequality, using Eurostat survey data from before and after the recent recession. They demonstrate that EU citizens understand their own economic fortunes (a) in relative comparison to other EU citizens, and (b) as vulnerable to forces of European integration. This important book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the EU has increased economic inequality and reshaped contemporary distributive politics in Europe. --Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityThis study marks a major breakthrough in research on European societies. While most of us working in this field still compare a set of national accounts, Martin Heidenreich and his colleagues treat the causes, profiles and consequences of inequality on a Europe-wide basis. This approach enables us to see underlying processes that nationally based projects cannot perceive. --Colin Crouch, Vice-president for Social Sciences, British AcademyThis timely book makes a strong case for analyzing patterns and dynamics of social inequality, both cross-nationally and transnationally. It convincingly demonstrates that a multi-faceted double dualization takes place - between social groups and along territorial lines. Moreover, it evinces that processes of horizontal Europeanization and the sovereign debt crises have reshaped the patterns of social inequality and given rise to new social cleavages and forms of conflict. --Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the Double Dualization of Inequality in Europe Martin Heidenreich 2. The Europeanization of Income Inequality Before and During the Eurozone Crisis: Inter-, Supra- and Transnational Perspectives Martin Heidenreich 3. Determinants of Persistent Poverty. Do Institutional Factors Matter? Cathrin Ingensiep 4. The Segmentation of European Labour Market – The Evolution of Short- and Long-term Unemployment Risks During the Eurozone Crisis Martin Heidenreich 5. Women as the Relative Winners of the Eurozone Crisis? Female Employment Opportunities between Austerity, Inclusion and Dualization Martin Heidenreich 6. Temporary Employment and Labour Market Segmentation in Europe 2002–2013 Christian Reimann 7. The Europeanization of Social Determinants and Health in the Great Recession Sabine Israel 8. Does Europeanization of Daily Life Increase the Life Satisfaction of the Europeans? Franziska Buttler 9. The European Integration Process and the Social Consequences of the Crisis Jenny Preunkert Index

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Book SynopsisWhatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden's labour market is now a highly individualized competitive arena. With attention to detail as well as global trends, this important book describes the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state across various arenas where being employable is increasingly framed as an individual responsibility. This book offers unique insight into current shifts from state to market, from institutional loyalty to marketing of self.'- Marianne Lien, University of Oslo, Norway'What remains of the emblematic Swedish model of the welfare state? Taking the example of labor market policy, Makeshift Work brings to light a major shift: from the commodification of work to the commodification of workers. In depth empirical investigations into the institutional and individual consequences of this shift make this book a reference for understanding the current transformations in Swedish society and more generally brings into focus the challenges facing Europe as a whole.'- Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, France'The rise and development of the Swedish model of labour market policy has been thoroughly dealt with in many important social science and economic analyses, but the present dismantling of the model and its consequences have only started to be understood. This book is therefore an extremely important contribution in that it combines concrete analyses of changes in the infrastructure of employment services and of the implications thereof from a human perspective.'- Jan Ch. Karlsson, Karlstad University, SwedenIn the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and mass unemployment has become a reality in what used to be viewed as a model case for a full employment society.With an emphasis on Sweden in the context of transnational regulatory change, Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market discusses how the market mediates employment and moves on to explore the ways in which employees adjust to a new labor market. Focusing on the legibility, measurability and responsibility of jobseekers, the expert contributors to this book bring together an analysis of activation policy and new ways of organizing the mediation of work, with implications for the individual jobseeker.Students and researchers of labor market policy, the organization of markets and work and society both in Sweden and abroad will find this book to be of interest. Policy makers will find the empirical examples of policy processes among employees an extremely useful and insightful tool.Trade Review‘Whatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden’s labour market is now a highly individualized competitive arena. With attention to detail as well as global trends, this important book describes the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state across various arenas where being employable is increasingly framed as an individual responsibility. This book offers unique insight into current shifts from state to market, from institutional loyalty to marketing of self.’ -- Marianne Lien, University of Oslo, Norway‘What remains of the emblematic Swedish model of the welfare state? Taking the example of labor market policy, Makeshift Work brings to light a major shift: from the commodification of work to the commodification of workers. In depth empirical investigations into the institutional and individual consequences of this shift make this book a reference for understanding the current transformations in Swedish society and more generally brings into focus the challenges facing Europe as a whole.’ -- Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, France‘The rise and development of the Swedish model of labour market policy has been thoroughly dealt with in many important social science and economic analyses, but the present dismantling of the model and its consequences have only started to be understood. This book is therefore an extremely important contribution in that it combines concrete analyses of changes in the infrastructure of employment services and of the implications thereof from a human perspective.’ -- Jan Ch. Karlsson, Karlstad University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Makeshift Work in a Global Labour Market Christina Garsten, Jessica Lindvert And Renita Thedvall PART I: A MARKET TO MEDIATE EMPLOYMENT TAKES SHAPE 2. A Policy for the New Job Market Jessica Lindvert 3. The Dual Role of the Public Employment Service: To Support and Control Lars Walter 4. Public Employment Officers as Agents and Therapists Julia Peralta 5. A Labour Market of Opportunities? Specialists Assess Work Ability and Disability Ida Seing 6. Temporary Staffing – Balancing Cooperation and Competition Gunilla Olofsdotter 7. Transition Programmes – A Disciplining Practice Ilinca Benson PART II: PEOPLE IN THE NEW LABOUR MARKET 8. Market-Oriented Relationships in Working Life – On the Perception of Being Employable Erik Berntson 9. Home Help Work: Balancing Loyalties Marie Hjalmarsson 10. In The Name of Evidence-Based Practice. Managing Social Workers Through Science, Standards and Transparency Renita Thedvall 11. Skills Development – An Empty Offer? Matilda Ardenfors and Jessica Lindvert 12. The Labour Market as a Market – Exchangeability, Measurability and Accountability Christina Garsten Index

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Book SynopsisThe value of this book is the rich and highly informative account of variations regarding gender differences at labour market entry across different industrialized countries, and the use of longitudinal data. Hans-Peter Blossfeld and his first-class team bring to the fore how gender differences arise at the transition from school-to-work, and to what extent women are able to convert their educational attainment in labor market positions. Bringing together evidence from across countries, readers will come to understand the crucial role of institutional structures in shaping gender inequalities in life course transitions.'- Ingrid Schoon, UCL Institute of Education, UK'This volume provides essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between men and women in the labour market. By concentrating on the crucial transition from school to work in a large number of countries, the authors investigate to what extent the increased female advantage in education is converted into advantage in occupational attainment. By comparing countries, which differ in terms of educational and labour market organisation, the authors show how the opportunities of women and men vary - sometimes in unexpected ways.'- Robert Erikson, Stockholm University, Sweden'The degree to which women have seen occupational and economic returns to their rising educational attainment relative to men largely remains an open question. This volume is the first comprehensive and highly-coordinated research effort to address this question with state of the art data and methods for a broad range of industrialized countries. . . Social scientists, policy makers, politicians, and students will all learn a great deal about the current state of gender inequalities at labor market entry across many countries and gain insights into what changes the future may bring.'- from the foreword by Claudia Buchmann, The Ohio State University, USFor much of the twentieth century, women lagged considerably behind men in their educational attainment. However, in recent decades, young women have become an important source of human capital for labor markets in modern societies, as well as potential competitors to the male workforce. This book asks whether or not women have been able to convert their educational success into gains on the labor market.The expert contributors address the topic on a comparative level with discussions centred on gendered school-to-work transitions and gendered labor market outcomes. Thereafter they analyze the country-specific implications of the gender redress from a wide range of countries including the USA, Russia and Australia.This enlightening book will appeal to graduates and postgraduates studying social policy, education, the labor market, inequality and gender. It will also be of interest to experts in the fields of sociology, education, political science and economics and those interested in educational research.Contributors: P. Barbieri, D.B. Bills, H.-P. Blossfeld, Y. Brinbaum, C. Brzinsky-Fay, S. Buchholz, S. Buchler, G. Cutuli, J. Dämmrich, A.M. Dockery, K. Halldén, J. Härkönen, D. Horn, S. Hupka-Brunner, C. Imdorf, T. Keller, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, Y. Kosyakova, D. Kurakin, M. Lugo, P. McMullin, P. Miret-Gamundi, S. Mollegaard Pedersen, E. Saar, S. Scherer, S. Schührer, J. Skopek, K. Täht, D. Trancart, M.Triventi, M. Unt, D. Vono de Vilhena, S. Wahler, F. WeissTrade Review‘Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions teaches us a tremendous amount about the state of gender inequalities at labor market entry across countries. Overall, the comprehensive research presented is relevant in both theoretical and applied contexts, and this text will appeal to students and experts in the fields of education, sociology, gender studies, social policy, political science, and economics.?‘ -- Jaya Soni, International Social Science Review?‘The value of this book is the rich and highly informative account of variations regarding gender differences at labour market entry across different industrialized countries, and the use of longitudinal data. Hans-Peter Blossfeld and his first-class team bring to the fore how gender differences arise at the transition from school-to-work, and to what extent women are able to convert their educational attainment in labor market positions. Bringing together evidence from across countries, readers will come to understand the crucial role of institutional structures in shaping gender inequalities in life course transitions.’ -- Ingrid Schoon, UCL Institute of Education, UK‘This volume provides essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between men and women in the labour market. By concentrating on the crucial transition from school to work in a large number of countries, the authors investigate to what extent the increased female advantage in education is converted into advantage in occupational attainment. By comparing countries, which differ in terms of educational and labour market organisation, the authors show how the opportunities of women and men vary – sometimes in unexpected ways.’ -- Robert Erikson, Stockholm University, Sweden‘The degree to which women have seen occupational and economic returns to their rising educational attainment relative to men largely remains an open question. This volume is the first comprehensive and highly-coordinated research effort to address this question with state of the art data and methods for a broad range of industrialized countries.. . . Social scientists, policy makers, politicians, and students will all learn a great deal about the current state of gender inequalities at labor market entry across many countries and gain insights into what changes the future may bring.’ -- from the foreword by Claudia Buchmann, The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Gender Differences at Labor Market Entry: The Effect of Changing Educational Pathways and Institutional Structures Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Johanna Dämmrich, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Yuliya Kosyakova, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, and Daniela Vono de Vilhena PART II COMPARATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS 2. Gendered School-to-Work Transitions? A Sequence Approach to How Women and Men Enter the Labor Market in Europe Christian Brzinsky-Fay 3. Gendered Labor Market Outcomes at Labor Market Entry and their Relationship with Country-Specific Characteristics: A Comparative Perspective Johanna Dämmrich PART III COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS 4. The Influence of Gender on Pathways Into the Labor Market: Evidence From Australia Sandra Buchler and A. Michael Dockery 5. Gender Differences in Labor Market Entry and Their Long-Term Consequences in the United States Susanne Schührer, David B. Bills, and Felix Weiss 6. The Consequences of Shifting Education and Economic Structures for Gender Differences at Labor Market Entry: The British Case Study Patricia McMullin and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen 7 The Role of Gender and Education in Early Labor Market Careers: Long-term Trends in Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli, Michele Lugo, and Stefani Scherer 8. Spain: Educational Pathways and their Consequences for Gender Differences at Labor Market Entry Daniela Vono de Vilhena and Pau Miret-Gamundi 9. Vertical and Horizontal Gender Segregation at Labor Market Entry in Sweden: Birth Cohorts 1925–85 Karin Halldén and Juho Härkönen 10. Youth Labor Market Entry in Denmark: A Gender-based Analysis of the First Significant Job Susanne Wahler, Sandra Buchholz, and Stine Møllegaard Pedersen 11. Educational Pathways and Gender Differences in Labor Market Entry in France Yaël Brinbaum and Danièle Trancart 12. Young Women Outcompeting Young Men? A Cohort Comparison of Gender Differences at Labor Market Entry in West Germany Sandra Buchholz, Jan Skopek, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld 13. Gender Differences at Labor Market Entry in Switzerland Christian Imdorf and Sandra Hupka-Brunner 14. Hungary: The Impact of Gender Culture Dániel Horn and Tamás Keller 15. Do Institutions Matter? Occupational Gender Segregation at Labor Market Entry in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia Yuliya Kosyakova and Dmitry Kurakin 16. Segregated Worlds of Male and Female Labor Market Entrants in Estonia During the last Decades? Ellu Saar, Kadri Täht, and Marge Unt PART IV CONCLUSION 17. Gender, Education and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Comparative Perspective Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jan Skopek, Yuliya Kosyakova, Moris Triventi and Sandra Buchholz Index

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