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Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain
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Warren, Tracey and Lyonette, Clare (2018) Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain. Work, Employment and Society, 32 (4). pp. 747-767. doi:10.1177/0950017018762289 ISSN 1469-8722.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762289
Abstract
Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but low quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering lower wage rates and restricted advancement opportunities. This article explores trends in part-time job quality for women up to and beyond the recession of 2008/9, and asks whether post-recessionary job quality remains differentiated by occupational class. A pre-recessionary narrowing of the part-time/full-time gap in job quality appears to have been maintained for the women in higher level part-time jobs, while part- and full-timers in lower-level jobs suffered the worst effects of the recession, signalling deepening occupational class inequalities among working women.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Part-time employment -- Women -- Great Britain, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Work, Employment and Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1469-8722 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 August 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 747-767 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0950017018762289 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 June 2018 | ||||||||
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