Sold out

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

English · Paperback / Softback

Description

Read more

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.

List of contents

Contents: Annette Thörnquist/Åsa-Karin Engstrand: Introduction. Precarious Employment in Perspective - Christer Thörnqvist: The Most Powerful Industrial Relations in the World? Pros and Cons of the Swedish Collective Bargaining System in the Light of the Laval Conflict - Anders Kjellberg: Trade Unions and Collective Agreements in a Changing World - Annette Thörnquist: False Self-Employment. A Topical but Old Labour Market Problem - Catharina Calleman: Precarious Employment in Sweden? Care Work and Domestic Work in a Twilight Zone between Public Law and Private Law - Monica Andersson Bäck: Who Cares about the Carer? New Public Management in Sweden - the Case of Health Call Centres - Åsa-Karin Engstrand: Justifying Precarious Employment? The Struggle over Shop Opening Hours - Malin Junestav: Promoting Employment or Employability? The Move from Active Labour Market Policy to Workfare - Paulina de los Reyes: Structural Discrimination and Causalised Work. An Intersectional Approach to (un)Equal Conditions in Swedish Working Life - Ali Osman/Per Andersson: Precarious Accreditation? Inclusion of Immigrants in Precarious Labour Market Positions - Steve Jefferys: How Dark are the Clouds over Sweden? - Annette Thörnquist/Åsa-Karin Engstrand: To Conclude.

About the author










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.

Product details

Assisted by Asa-Karin Engstrand (Editor), Åsa-Karin Engstrand (Editor), Annette Thoernquist (Editor), Annette Thornquist (Editor), Annette Thörnquist (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2016
 
EAN 9789052017303
ISBN 978-90-5201-730-3
No. of pages 309
Dimensions 150 mm x 17 mm x 220 mm
Weight 440 g
Series Travail & Société / Work & Society
Travail et Société / Work and Society
Travail & Société / Work & Society
Travail et Société / Work and Society
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.