Women, Work and Inequality: The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market

by J. Gregory (Editor), R. Sales (Editor), A. Hegewisch (Editor)

Overview

Brings together academics, lawyers, trade unionists and industrial relations experts to provide an incisive analysis of the impact of globalisation and deregulation on gender inequality in employment. It reviews the evolution of pay equity polices and examines the impact of economic and social trends on divisions between women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349404872
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JEANNE GREGORY is Visiting Professor and Head of the Gender Research Centre at Middlesex University. She is author of Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality and has published articles on equal pay, sex and race discrimination, sexual harassment and women refugees.

ROSEMARY SALES is Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Science at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of the MA Gender and Society. She is author of Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland and Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics (with E. Kofman, A. Phizacklea and P. Raghuram). She has published a number of articles on migration and social exclusion in Europe.

ARIANE HEGEWISCH is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. She is the co-author of Policy and Practice of European Human Resource Management; European Developments in Human Resource Management and the European Human Resource Management Guide.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: LABOUR MARKET INEQUALITIES: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Then and Now: Equal Pay in European Union Politics; C.Hoskyns Global Feminization and Flexible Labour Markets: Gendered Discourse in the Opposition to Pay Equality Reform; D.Figart & E.Mutari Pay Equity: Hard Work Down Under; M.Coleman Globalization, Feminization and Pay Inequalities in London and the UK; I.Bruegel PART TWO: RACE, MIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT Immigration, Ethnicity and Exclusion: Implications of European Integration; R.Sales & J.Gregory 'Just Like One of the Family'? Gender, Ethnicity and Migrant Status among Filipino Domestic Workers in Rome; C.Tacoli South Asian Women Homeworkers in East London; K.Bhopal PART THREE: EVALUATING EQUAL PAY LAW Pay Equity: Lessons from Ontario, Canada; P.McDermott Negative (Pay) Equity - An Analysis of some (Side) Effects of the Equal Pay Act; S.Hastings Independent Experts in Equal Pay; A.Arthurs PART FOUR: THE STRATEGIC USE OF EQUAL PAY LAW Public Sector Reforms in a Changing Economic and Political Climate: Lessons from Michigan; P.Kahn & D.Figart Strategic Litigation in Pursuit of Pay Equality; R.Allen & G.Moon Union Strategies for Equality: The Role of Unison; M.Howes with A.Hegewisch List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Glossary Index

Editorial Reviews

Pay equity and deregulation aims clash. In this context, economists, sociologists, lawyers, industrial relations experts, and trade unionists from the UK, North America, and New Zealand provide international perspectives on labor market inequalities; patterns of race, migration, and employment; equal pay law; and the strategic use of pay equity legislation. The 18 contributors (all but two women) review the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic policies on gender equality on the three continents with case studies involving US public sector reforms, an indirect discrimination case (UK), and UNISON, the UK's largest trade union. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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