POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neoliberalism, Parental Leave, Social Reproduction
24 Jan 2019
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Fudge: working-time regimes, flexibility, and work-life balance: the working time regime, sets the legal parameters of working time. Treatment of time that deviates from the norms (overtime) Post wwii in canada: federal working time regime: standard work time (male breadwinner model, government regulation, negotiated (union bargaining) market based regulation, hours of paid and unpaid work. Standard time under pressure: late 20th century: in turn to neo-liberalism, standard time under pressure, less and less compliance with regulation as no longer fit the needs of employers and some employees. Supply side: more women, more part-time jobs held by both men and women but many more women in part-time. Fudge: neoliberalism and flexibility: fudge argues that quote on page 189 about the drift towards market model, feminization of labour. More women in the workforce: the flexible time regime. Fudge: gender and work/life balance: among full-time workers. Managers, administrators, executives: among part-time workers. Work schedule, wages: gender equality and flexibility.
