Working Part-Time: Risks and Opportunities

by Barbara Warme (Editor), Katherina L. P. Lundy (Editor), Larry A. Lundy (Editor)

Overview

The hiring of part-time and temporary workers has historically been a mechanism for adjusting imbalances between supply and demand in the labor market. The use of such workers has increased dramatically as technological changes have put a premium on flexibility, and as fringe benefits have come to constitute an increasing percentage of labor costs. Flexibility is sought not only by organizations, but also by individuals: students, women with children, disabled persons, and retirees all benefit by part-time opportunities. Part-Time Work discusses these opportunities, and the risk involved in employment which is sometimes underpaid and devalued, and from which movement to full-time positions is difficult.

This volume represents the work of a cross-section of specialists in labor economics, industrial relations specialists, and social scientists who are engaged in research on the transformation of work in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Chapters focus on the structural aspects of part-time work, conditions under which such work is performed, constraints imposed on employers by official agencies, and expectations and attitudes of part-time workers rooted in a particular society. Part-Time Work will prove particularly useful to sociologists, labor specialists, and relevant government agencies, organizations, and unions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275931421
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1992
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

BARBARA D. WARME, a sociologist, is currently doing research in the Netherlands and is on leave from York University in Canada. At the University, she has taught in the areas of public policy and the sociology of work, and was the Director of the Writing Workshop for six years. She collaborated with Kitty Lundy on Work In The Canadian Context: Continuity Despite Change and Sociology: A Window on the World.

KATHERINA L.P. LUNDY was, at the time of her death, a sociologist at Atkinson College, York University and also at Erindale College at the University of Toronto. Most of her research was in occupational sociology and has been widely reported at conferences and in jourbanal articles. She co-authored this and four other books with Barbara Warme.

LARRY A. LUNDY develops computer-assisted modes of analysis of social service data for the provincial Ministry of Community and Social Services in Ontario. His research and teaching have been in anthropology, social work, and sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Overview
Part-Time Work in the North Atlantic Triangle: The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada by Craig McKie
Shaping and Re-Shaping Part-Time Work
Part-Timers: Living on Half-Rations by Sar A. Levitan and Elizabeth A. Conway
Government and Part-Time Work in Canada by Robert J. Drummond
Part-Time Work and the State in Britain, 1941-1987 by Celia J. Briar
Part-Time Employment and Industrial Relations in Great Britain in the 1980s by David G. Blanchflower
Ambivalence or Apprehension? The Labor Movement and the Part-Time Worker in Canada by Norene Pupo and Ann Duffy
Part-Time Work and the Life Cycle
Working Youths in the United States by Robert A. Rothman
Do Part-Time Jobs Improve the Labor Market Chances of High School Graduates? by Graham S. Lowe and Harvey Krahn
Part-Time Work among Young People in Britain by Angela M. Dale
Women's Part-Time Work in Britain and the United States by Shirley Dex
Part-Time Employment among Canadian Women: A Nexus between Capitalism and Patriarchy by Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo
Part-Time Work and the Older Worker in Canada by P. Lynn McDonald and Richard A. Wanner
Employment and Marginalism of Older Workers in the United States by Lonnie Golden
A Closer Look: Industrial and Occupational Cases
Two Faces of Part-Time Work: Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs in U.S. Service Industries by Chris Tilly
Part-Time and Occasional Teachers in Ontario's Elementary School System by Isik Uria Zeytinoglu
Gender and Career Trajectory: the Case of Part-Time Faculty by Katherina L. P. Lundy and Barbara D. Warme
The Crisis in Hospital Nursing and the Retreat to Part-Time Work by Jerry Patrick White
What of the Future?
Part-Time Work: A Hope and a Peril by Hilda Kahne
Work Sharing and Job Sharing: Whose Priorities Prevail? by Vivienne Monty
Bibliography
Index