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Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing
contours of work and workplace relations have led to a
reorientation of the social, economic, political and cultural
environment within which labour law has developed. This is not a
jurisdictional problem but rather is deeply entrenched in
transnational development. Solutions must recognise and mobilise
the transformational shift that has taken place over recent
decades. Law should be viewed as a force for and a facilitator of
change, capable of expressing and determining social relations. The
essays in this book explore the challenges posed by labour law's
potential reinvention as a discipline fit for accommodating and
investigating such change within a range of different but connected
jurisdictional and regulatory concepts and paradigms.
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
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 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.
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