The skills and autonomy of female part-time work in Britain and Sweden

Halldén, Karin; Gallie, Duncan; Zhou, Ying

doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2011.07.001

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“…In line with the international literature (e.g. Halldén et al, 2012), analyses also reveal that part-time employment is more common than full-time employment in lower occupational class jobs. Additionally, in 2019, part-time work was less common in higher-class occupations (in particular short part-time, ≤20 hours/week).…”

Section: Femalesupporting

confidence: 83%

Vienna

Kazepov¹,

Verwiebe²

2021

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This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs.The book questions and assesses the city's resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterise the European city model within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types.Vienna: Still a Just City? is aimed at academics, researchers and policymakers in urban studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare.Yuri Kazepov is a professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria). Among his fields of interest are multilevel governance, the territorial dimension of social policies. On these issues, he has been carrying out comparative research and evaluation activities for the EU and National Agencies.Roland Verwiebe is a professor of Social Stratification Research at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include the domains of social inequality, migration, attitudes and values as well as quality of life in the city. On these topics, he has published in leading international journals. Built Environment City StudiesThe Built Environment City Studies series provides researchers and academics with a detailed look at individual cities through a specific lens. These concise books delve into a case study of an international city, focusing on a key built environment topic. Written by scholars from around the world, the collection provides a library of thorough studies into trends, developments and approaches that affect our cities.

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Section: Femalesupporting

confidence: 83%

Vienna

Kazepov¹,

Verwiebe²

2021

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“…There is a wide range of variation in the weekly hours part-timers work. Most crucially from the point of view of comparison, countries may differ considerably in the typical hours part-timers work (Halldén et al 2012). To ensure that we are comparing like-with-like, it is essential to contrast employees with broadly similar working hours.…”

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Quality of work and job satisfaction: comparing female part-time work in four European countries

Gallie

Gebel

Giesecke

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International Review of Sociology

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Adding to the debate on the integrative or marginalizing nature of female part-time work, this article provides a comparative analysis of the implications of female part-time work for different intrinsic job quality dimensions and job satisfaction. Drawing on national micro-data from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, our multivariate analyses show cross-national similarities in terms of lower job learning opportunities for female part-timers. We found a significantly higher incidence of repetitiveness only among Swedish female part-timers and lower degrees of task discretion among British, Dutch, and Swedish women working part-time hours. Female part-timers were either equally satisfied with their work as female full-timers or even more satisfied. This held true also after accounting for the lower intrinsic job quality of part-time work. While women working part-time hours were as affected by their job quality characteristics as were full-timers, we conclude that the shorter hours of work per se provide an important additional source of job satisfaction.

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“…Social democratic nations (typified by Sweden) are distinguished by the state's prominent role in the distribution of resources and care provision. They actively support a dual-earner model-offering comprehensive publicly-funded caregiving services, fairly generous benefits for periods of non-employment, flexible work arrangements, and better-quality part-time jobs to sustain caregivers' labour force attachment (Halldén, Gallie, & Zhou, 2012). Table 1 (row 1) summarises these distinctions.…”

Section: Background the Gendered Life Coursementioning

confidence: 99%