managing the margins gender citizenship and the international regulation of precarious employment feb 2010

[...]... analyses the contested development of such regulations in parts of Western Europe as well as in Australia, Canada, and the United States and in what is often called the International Labour Code—or the compendium of labour standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO) plus those of other supra-state organizations (e.g the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN)) (for a table of international. .. with unions and employers, and increasingly with the input of other segments of civil society, which also play central roles in the UN system Although it is informed by scholarship analysing regulations of the ILO, the UN, and the EU in the context of international law and politics (see especially Charnowitz 1987, 1995; Langille 1997; Murray 2001c; and Alston 2005) and studies of the role of international. .. continued well being of the worker for the labour process and, on the other hand, the general standard of living, education and health sustained in society’ For Picchio (1981: 194), social reproduction is ‘central to labour 7 Managing the Margins market analysis’ because it ‘determines the position of individuals within the labour market, provides the basis for standards of living (and is thus the reference... of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries shapes contemporary responses to precarious employment, this book analyses regulations operating at different scales from the late 1800s, when national and international measures prefiguring the construction of the SER took shape, to the present, with the construction of a package of international regulations directed at non-standard employment. .. Relationship Standardized Working Time Continuous Employment Reinforcing the Pillars: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Migrant Work Stripping the SER of its Exclusions: The Era of Formal Equality Equal Remuneration, Maternity, and Social Security Non-Discrimination The Resilience of the Baseline 3 The Partial Eclipse of the SER and the Dynamics of SER-Centrism in International Labour Regulations... Women, 1878–1913 The Consolidation of Female Caregiving and the Birth of the ILO, 1919 Preparing the Ground for the SER xv xvi xvii 1 2 3 3 6 9 13 15 17 26 27 28 32 34 36 37 38 43 48 xi Contents 2 Constructing and Consolidating the Standard Employment Relationship in International Labour Regulation Constructing the Pillars of the SER: The Interwar and Immediate Postwar Years The Bilateral Employment Relationship... scholars to speak of the ‘negotiated citizenship (Stasiulis and Bakan 2005) of migrant workers, ‘partial citizenship (Lister 1997), and the citizenship of alienage’ (Bosniak 2002) The gradual and selective extension of partial citizenship to migrants was interwoven with the experiences and struggles of women, people of colour, and Aboriginal people residing permanently within the societies hosting... (households), and the regulation of industrial relations (the State)’ (O’Reilly and Spee 1998: 263; see also O’Reilly 1994; Rubery and Fagan 1994; O’Reilly and Fagan, eds., 1998) The merits of this cluster of scholarship are its integrated character, the possibilities it offers for comparing different types of regulations and policies and their impact on its three spheres of concern, and its attentiveness... In these ways, the internal inclusions and exclusions of national citizenship and the male breadwinner / female caregiver contract were intertwined under the SER The key link between them: their contributions to the daily and intergenerational reproduction of workers in the societies in which this employment norm arose 12 Introduction Regulations at Different Scales In exploring how the interaction of. .. to it—as the logical solution As I shall 1 Managing the Margins argue, the resulting regulatory frameworks do little more than manage the precarious margins of late-capitalist labour markets The task of their elimination remains Precarious Employment References to precarious employment , or related terms such as ‘contingent work’ and ‘atypical employment , are increasingly common in popular and scholarly . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Managing the Margins This page intentionally left blank Managing the Margins Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment Leah F. Vosko 1 3 Great. 156 6. Self -Employment and the Regulation of the Employment Relationship: From Equal Treatment to Effective Protection 165 The Destabilization of the Employment Relationship at the Crux of the SER. understand the precarious margins of late-capitalist labour markets by analysing the interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries. My point of departure is the prevailing