Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law

ISBN-13: 9781859414811 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 280 str.

Anne Morris;Therese O'Donnell;Anne Morris

Opis

Employment Law has been taught in one guise or another for many years and remains a popular subject with students. It has also given rise to more specialist offshoots, such as courses which examine the laws designed to assist women in paid employment - in particular, the anti-discrimination laws. Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harasment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made. This volume aims to present an accessible discussion of some traditional and some not-so-obvious aspects of employment relationship. It is meant for the student of Employment Law and for the student interested more generally in feminist perspectives on law.

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made.

Spis treści

1. Employment Law and Feminism 2. Feminism and Labour Law: Contesting the Terrain 3. Equal Opportunities, Staff Development and Assertiveness 4. The Sweat of the Brow or the Breaking of the Heart? 5. Marginal Notes? Gender and the Contract of Employment 6. Volunteering: A Nice Little Job for a Woman? 7. The Intersection Between Gender and Race' in the Labour Market: Lessons for Anti-Discrimination Law 8. Feminising' the Workplace? Law, the 'Good Parent' and the 'Problem of Men' 9. Workers First, Women Second? Trade Unions and the Equality Agenda 10. Mainstreaming Equal Opportunities: Succeeding When all Else Has Failed? 11. Equal Pay: Theory and Practice in two Countries

O autorze

Anne Morris, Thérèse O'Donnell