Women, Precarious Work and Care : The Failure of Family-friendly Rights, Pape...

Description: Women, Precarious Work and Care : The Failure of Family-friendly Rights, Paperback by Grabham, Emily, ISBN 1529218713, ISBN-13 9781529218718, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Drawing on 33 interviews with women in precarious work in the UK, the author describes what life is like for these women, including their daily routines, care strategies, and experiences at work, as well as the financial and emotional stresses they face when balancing precarious work with a care responsibility. She also explains why precarious workers need a new approach to family-friendly rights like maternity leave and pay and the right to request flexible work and parental leave. She argues that these rights are based on the idea of a secure employee in a permanent role and that a new approach is needed that is capable of recognizing the experiences of precarious workers in which the balance of power is in favor of employers and workers do not feel they can negotiate. She discusses how these women got into temporary, zero-hours, and involuntary part-time work; how they make ends meet on fluctuating and often low incomes; the unpaid care they provide, its impact on their social lives, and their feelings about care; strategies they use to set up and manage care networks; feelings about their work and employment status and how they feared reprisals in response to mentioning care or asking for care-friendly working arrangements; what happened when they could not avoid disclosing a care responsibility and how employers responded; how their experiences impact their bargaining power at work; and key principles that could underpin new family-friendly rights for precarious workers. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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