Precarious Employment in Perspective: Old and New Challenges to Working Conditions in Sweden - Couverture souple

Thörnquist, Annette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9052017301 ISBN 13 : 9789052017303

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2009

Synopsis

In recent scholarship, the notion of precarious employment has become increasingly important when exploring challenges to working conditions in various contexts. Both scholars and stakeholders have highlighted the multifaceted character of this phenomenon in different countries, regions and labour markets. This book explores the emergence of precariousness in Sweden, a country that has traditionally been held up as an example when it comes to the advantages of powerful pro-labour parties and employment security. The essays provide historical and international perspectives on the issue, as well as multi-disciplinary approaches to explaining the problem. By examining the development of precarious employment in recent decades in different settings, ranging from industrial relations and employment relationships to consideration of regulation, policy and actual working conditions in different sectors, the authors, writing from different disciplinary perspectives, provide a rich and varied analysis of precarious employment. They suggest that the best tool for understanding the phenomenon is a power relations approach based on class, gender and ethnicity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Annette Thörnquist is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University. In recent years, she has also worked as a researcher at the Department of Work Science, University of Gothenburg, and at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. Åsa-Karin Engstrand is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) and a guest lecturer at the Division of Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9052017301
• ISBN 13: 9789052017303
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne