Law and gendered labour market segmentation Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractThis article captures the shared understanding in the literature of labour law's interaction with gender, distinguishing between law's different functions – constituting labour market institutions, sustaining them, addressing unwarranted outcomes and transforming the institutions. Constituted, in part, by law, the standard employment relationship and the institutions of formal employment have segmenting gendered effects. While legal norms designed to correct these effects are important, they also sustain them. The authors argue for a transformative alternative that would follow two general principles in designing new labour standards, namely, universalization of scope and adaptive content in the interests of differently situated women and men.

authors

• Fudge, Judith
• MUNDLAK, Guy

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2022

has subject area

• 1503 Business and Management (FoR)
• 1604 Human Geography (FoR)
• 1801 Law (FoR)
• Industrial Relations (Science Metrix)

published in

• Revue Internationale du Travail  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
• 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations
• 38 Economics
• 3801 Applied Economics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/ilr.12339

start page

• 657

end page

• 675

volume

• 161

issue

• 4