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This book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Jill Rubery. Jill is a major figure in international debates on inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream theoretical approaches, whether in economics, management, industrial relations or comparative systems, and their attention to real-world empirical detail. Jill's intellectual roots are with the influential Cambridge economics group researching labour market segmentation in the late 1970s and 1980s during a period when Keynesian economic thought was being eclipsed by neoclassical economics modelling. The research was inter-disciplinary, grounded in data (mostly involving case studies of firms) and driven by an ambitious intellectual agenda that developed theory while also illuminating practical matters of relevance to policy-makers and practitioners.

1. A new labour market segmentation approach for analysing inequalities: introduction and overview -- part I: Conceptual issues: employment standards, networks and worker voice -- 2. Autonomous bargaining in the shadow of the law: from an enabling towards a disabling state? -- 3. The persistence of, and challenges to, societal effects in the context of global competition -- 4. The networked organisation: implications for jobs and inequality -- 5. The challenges for fair voice in liberal market economies -- 6. Working-time flexibility: diversification and the rise of fragmented time systems -- part II: International evidence: precarious employment and gender inequality -- 7. Labour segmentation and precariousness in Spain: theories and evidence -- 8. Subsidiary employment in Italy: can commodification of labour be self-limiting? -- 9. Job quality: conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis -- 10. Working longer and harder? A critical assessment of work effort in Britain in comparison to Europe -- 11. Plague, patriarchy and 'girl power' -- 12. The two-child policy in China: a blessing or a curse fo rthe employment of female university graduates? -- part III: Convergence, divergence and the importance of regulating for decent work -- 13. The social reproduction of youth labour market inequalities: the effects of gender, households and ethnicity -- 14. Labour policies in a deflationary environment -- 15. Uncertainty and undecidability in the contemporary state: the dualist and complex role of the state in Spanish labour and employment relations in an age of 'flexibility' -- 16. Work and care regimes and women's employment outcomes: Australia, France and Sweden compared -- 17. Minimum wages and the remaking of the wage-setting systems in Greece and the UK -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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