Description: This collection of original essays by experts in the field explores the relationship between precarious work and gender.
Brief description: Rosemary Owens is Emerita Professor at the University of Adelaide.
Review Quotes: "...an informative and thought-provoking collection of papers...This volume makes a valuable contribution to the feminist literature. By placing laws and policies in their social contexts, it provides a comparative analysis of the challenges precarious employment growth and feminization of labour present to labour law...The book will be of interest to a broad international audience of economists, sociologists, and industrial relations and human resource management specialists, as well as legal scholars...I would strongly recommend this book to any Feminist Economics reader who is interested in flexibility, workplace changes, and gender and precarious work issues." --Isik Urla Zeytinoglu, Feminist Economics 14 (3), July 2008