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Working Part-Time: Risks and Opportunities

by Katherina L. P. Lundy, Barbara D. Warme. 376 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Katherina L. P. Lundy, Barbara D. Warme

Publisher:

   Praeger Publishers

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1992
Subjects:   Part-Time Employment, Part-Time Employment--Case Studies
Table of contents
Contents
Illustrations xi
List of Abbreviations xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Part-Time Work in the North Atlantic Triangle: The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada Craig McKie 21
2. Part-Timers: Living on Half Rations Sar A. Levitan and Elizabeth A. Conway 45
3. Governments and Part-Time Work in Canada Robert J. Drummond 61
4. Part-Time Work and the State in Britain, 1941-1987 Celia G. Briar 75
5. Part-Time Employment and Industrial Relations in Great Britain in the 1980s David G. Blanchflower 87
6. Ambivalence or Apprehension? The Labor Movement and the Part-Time Worker in Canada Norene Pupo and Ann Duffy 105
7. Working Youths in the United States Robert A. Rothman 119
8. Do Part-Time Jobs Improve the Labor Market Chances of High School Graduates? Graham S. Lowe and Harvey Krahn 131
9. Part-Time Working among Young People in Britain Angela M. Dale 149
10. Women's Part-Time Work in Britain and the United States Shirley Dex 161
11. Part-Time Employment among Canadian Women: A Nexus between Capitalism and Patriarchy Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo 175
12. Part-Time Work and the Older Worker in Canada P. Lynn McDonald and Richard A. Wanner 187
13. Employment and the Marginalization of Older Workers in the United States Lonnie Golden 205
14. Two Faces of Part-Time Work: Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs in U.S. Service Industries Chris Tilly 227
15. Part-Time and Occasional Teachers in Ontario's Elementary School System Isik Urla Zeytinoglu 239
16. Gender and Career Trajectory: The Case of Part-Time Faculty Katherina L. P. Lundy and Barbara D. Warme 257
17. The Crisis in Hospital Nursing and the Retreat to Part- Time Work Jerry Patrick White 277
V. WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
18. Part-Time Work: A Hope and a Peril Hilda Kahne 295
19. Work Sharing and Job Sharing: Whose Priorities Prevail? Vivienne Monty 311
Bibliography 323
Index 359
About the Contributors 371
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