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Feminist perspectives on employment law

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Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made. Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made. The aspiration behind the special section and the GLLRN is to help to revitalize scholarship in labour law by infusing it with a robust feminist engagement with core concepts such as work, care, gender and social reproduction. Although the focus is on what feminist theorizing, methodologies and concerns can bring to understanding the role of law in how work is organized and valued, the intellectual and political concerns of the participants of the workshop and of the research network are broader. What unites the participants of the workshop, contributors to this special section and, we hope, the expanding circle of researchers affiliated with the GLLRN, is a commitment to examining the relationship between legal artefacts, norms, forms, discourses, actors and institutions and the organization and valuation of work. We appreciate that gender can only be understood in relation to, and in combination with, other axes of subordination such as class, race, religion, ethnicity and migrant status. By using the term ‘gendering’ we have tried to emphasize the constructed and interconnected nature of social categories and social relations, and our interest is in exploring how subordination is constructed, cultivated, resisted, challenged and transformed in work relations.

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KP.II-00043

KP.II MOR f

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KP.II MOR f

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London : Cavendish Publishing Limited., 1999

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xxvi, 254 Hal.; 23cm.

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English

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1-859-414-81-8

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KP.II

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Labour Laws and legislation
women-Employment
Laws-Legislation
Feminist Perspectives
Gender and the contract of employment

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