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Women, Work and Inequality

The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Jeanne Gregory

    1. Middlesex University, UK

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  2. Rosemary Sales

    1. School of Social Science, Middlesex University, UK

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  3. Ariane Hegewisch

    1. Cranfield School of Management, Bedford, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jeanne Gregory, Ariane Hegewisch, Rosemary Sales
      Pages 1-24

  3. Labour Market Inequalities: International Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Then and Now: Equal Pay in European Union Politics

      • Catherine Hoskyns
      Pages 27-43

    3. Global Feminization and Flexible Labour Markets: Gendered Discourse in the Opposition to Pay Equity Reform

      • Deborah Figart, Ellen Mutari
      Pages 44-57

    4. Pay Equity: Hard Work Down Under

      • Martha Coleman
      Pages 58-72

    5. Globalization, Feminization and Pay Inequalities in London and the UK

      • Irene Bruegel
      Pages 73-93

  5. Evaluating Equal Pay Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Pay Equity Lessons from Ontario, Canada

      • Patricia McDermott
      Pages 141-152

    3. Negative (Pay) Equity — an Analysis of Some (Side-) Effects of the Equal Pay Act

      • Sue Hastings
      Pages 153-167

    4. Independent Experts in Equal Pay

      • Alan Arthurs
      Pages 168-180

  6. The Strategic Use of Equal Pay Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Public Sector Reforms in a Changing Economic and Political Climate: Lessons from Michigan

      • Peggy Kahn, Deborah Figart
      Pages 183-195

    3. Strategic Litigation in Pursuit of Pay Equality

      • Robin Allen, Gay Moon
      Pages 196-207

    4. Union Strategies in Pursuit of Pay Equity: the Role of UNISON

      • Virginia Branney, Marisa Howes, Ariane Hegewisch
      Pages 208-216

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 217-220
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About this book

Brings together academics, lawyers, trade unionists and industrial relations experts to provide an incisive analysis of the impact of globalisation and deregulation on gender inequality in employment. It reviews the evolution of pay equity polices and examines the impact of economic and social trends on divisions between women.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex University, UK

    Jeanne Gregory

  • School of Social Science, Middlesex University, UK

    Rosemary Sales

  • Cranfield School of Management, Bedford, UK

    Ariane Hegewisch

About the editors

JEANNE GREGORY is Visiting Professor and Head of the Gender Research Centre at Middlesex University. She is author of Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality and has published articles on equal pay, sex and race discrimination, sexual harassment and women refugees.

ROSEMARY SALES is Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Science at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of the MA Gender and Society. She is author of Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland and Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics (with E. Kofman, A. Phizacklea and P. Raghuram). She has published a number of articles on migration and social exclusion in Europe.

ARIANE HEGEWISCH is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. She is the co-author of Policy and Practice of European Human Resource Management; European Developments in Human Resource Management and the European Human Resource Management Guide.

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