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This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from
a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law's
engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with
policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches and
perspectives. Families, Care-giving and Paid Work offers an
original approach to a very topical area. Not only does it consider
the limitations of law in relation to the regulation of care-giving
and workplace relationships, but it is premised upon a
reconsideration of law's potential and engages with suggested
strategies for bringing about long-term social change. Offering a
range of analyses, this book will strongly appeal to policy makers
and practitioners involved with promoting work and family issues,
students in labor and employment studies, law and social policy, as
well as academics interested in work and family reconciliation
issues, or gender and law issues. Contributors: N. Busby, T.
Callus, E. Caracciolo di Torella, S. Charlesworth, R. Guerrina, R.
Horton, G. James, C. Lyonette, S. Macpherson, A. Masselot, O.
Smith, M. Weldon-Johns
Why is the law failing to protect pregnant workers and parents from
detrimental treatment in the workplace? This theoretically informed
book, which draws on the findings of a large scale, Nuffield
Foundation funded, study of pregnancy-related workplace disputes,
explores the legal regulation of pregnancy and parenting in the
labour market. Using an epistemology that draws primarily on
critical feminist debates, theories and critiques, the book adopts
a necessarily female standpoint and seeks to answer why, despite
positive policy ambitions and ample legislation, law is failing to
protect pregnant workers and parents. Whilst sensitive to the
limits of law's ability to bring about social change, the book asks
whether it is the direction of current policies that need
attention, or the substance of the legislation that is flawed. Is
it the application of the law in courts and tribunals that fails
working families or the mechanics of the employment dispute
resolution and tribunal system that needs adjusting? This book will
interest academics, students and practitioners of law and social
policy interested in employment law and discrimination.
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Families in market economies have long been confronted by the
demands of participating in paid work and providing care. Across
Europe the social, economic and political environment within which
families do so has been subject to substantial change in the
post-World War II era and governments have come under increasing
pressure to engage with this important area of public policy. In
the UK, as elsewhere, the tensions which lie at the heart of the
paid work/unpaid care conflict remain unresolved posing substantial
difficulties for all of law's subjects both as carers and as the
recipients of care. What seems like a relatively simple goal - to
enable families to better balance care-giving and paid employment -
has been subject to and shaped by shifting priorities over time
leading to a variety of often conflicting policy approaches. This
book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to
regulation. It has two aims: * To chart the development of the UK's
law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and the
growth and decline of the welfare state, considering a longer
historical trajectory where appropriate. * To suggest an
alternative policy approach based on Martha Fineman's vulnerability
theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the liberal subject
as the focus of legal intervention. This reorientation enables a
more inclusive and cohesive policy approach and has great potential
to contribute to the reconciliation of the unresolved conflict
between paid work and care-giving.
Families in market economies have long been confronted by the
demands of participating in paid work and providing care. Across
Europe the social, economic and political environment within which
families do so has been subject to substantial change in the
post-World War II era and governments have come under increasing
pressure to engage with this important area of public policy. In
the UK, as elsewhere, the tensions which lie at the heart of the
paid work/unpaid care conflict remain unresolved posing substantial
difficulties for all of lawâs subjects both as carers and as the
recipients of care. What seems like a relatively simple goal â to
enable families to better balance care-giving and paid employment
â has been subject to and shaped by shifting priorities over time
leading to a variety of often conflicting policy approaches. This
book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to
regulation. It has two aims: ¡ To chart the development of the
UKâs law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and
the growth and decline of the welfare state, considering a longer
historical trajectory where appropriate. ¡ To suggest an
alternative policy approach based on Martha Finemanâs
vulnerability theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the
liberal subject as the focus of legal intervention. This
reorientation enables a more inclusive and cohesive policy approach
and has great potential to contribute to the reconciliation of the
unresolved conflict between paid work and care-giving.
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
1923. These tales and legends have been collected from many
sources. Some of them have been selected from the Record of Ancient
Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from
memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the
lips of a school fellow or nurse. Certain of them form favorite
subjects for representation on the Japanese stage. Illustrated.
1923. These tales and legends have been collected from many
sources. Some of them have been selected from the Record of Ancient
Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from
memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the
lips of a school fellow or nurse. Certain of them form favorite
subjects for representation on the Japanese stage. Illustrated.
1923. These tales and legends have been collected from many
sources. Some of them have been selected from the Record of Ancient
Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from
memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the
lips of a school fellow or nurse. Certain of them form favorite
subjects for representation on the Japanese stage. Illustrated.
Unmarried heterosexual cohabitation is rapidly increasing in
Britain and over a quarter of children are now born to unmarried
cohabiting parents. This is not just an important change in the way
we live in modern Britain; it is also a political and theoretical
marker. Some commentators see cohabitation as evidence of selfish
individualism and the breakdown of the family, while others see it
as just a less institutionalised way in which people express
commitment and build their families. Politically, 'stable' families
are seen as crucial - but does stability simply mean marriage? At
present the law in Britain retains important distinctions in the
way it treats cohabiting and married families and this can have
deleterious effects on the welfare of children and partners on
cohabitation breakdown or death of a partner. Should the law be
changed to reflect this changing social reality? Or should it - can
it - be used to direct these changes? Using findings from their
recent Nuffield Foundation funded study, which combines nationally
representative data with in-depth qualitative work, the authors
examine public attitudes about cohabitation and marriage, provide
an analysis of who cohabits and who marries, and investigate the
extent and nature of the 'common law marriage myth' (the false
belief that cohabitants have similar legal rights to married
couples). They then explore why people cohabit rather than marry,
what the nature of their commitment is to one another and chart
public attitudes to legal change. In the light of this evidence,
the book then evaluates different options for legal reform.
These tales and legends have been collected from many sources. Some
of them have been selected from the Record of Ancient Matters,
which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from memory,
being relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a
school fellow or nurse. Certain of them form favorite subjects for
representation on the Japanese stage. Illustrated.
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