Women, work and inequality: the challenge of equal pay in a deregulated labour market

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Introduction PART ONE: LABOUR MARKET INEQUALITIES: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Then and Now: Equal Pay in European Union Politics C.Hoskyns Global Feminization and Flexible Labour Markets: Gendered Discourse in the Opposition to Pay Equality Reform D.Figart & E.Mutari Pay Equity: Hard Work Down Under M.Coleman Globalization, Feminization and Pay Inequalities in London and the UK I.Bruegel PART TWO: RACE, MIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT Immigration, Ethnicity and Exclusion: Implications of European Integration R.Sales & J.Gregory 'Just Like One of the Family'? Gender, Ethnicity and Migrant Status among Filipino Domestic Workers in Rome C.Tacoli South Asian Women Homeworkers in East London K.Bhopal PART THREE: EVALUATING EQUAL PAY LAW Pay Equity: Lessons from Ontario, Canada P.McDermott Negative (Pay) Equity - An Analysis of some (Side) Effects of the Equal Pay Act S.Hastings Independent Experts in Equal Pay A.Arthurs PART FOUR: THE STRATEGIC USE OF EQUAL PAY LAW Public Sector Reforms in a Changing Economic and Political Climate: Lessons from Michigan P.Kahn & D.Figart Strategic Litigation in Pursuit of Pay Equality R.Allen & G.Moon Union Strategies for Equality: The Role of Unison M.Howes with A.Hegewisch List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Glossary Index