Managing the margins : gender, citizenship, and the international regulation of precarious employment / Leah F. Vosko.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Precarious employment -- An integrated analysis -- Regulations at different scales -- A multi-method approach -- The book in brief -- Forging a gender contract in early national and international labour regulation. Select national developments, 1830s-1930s ; International developments, 1870s-1919 ; Preparing the ground for the SER -- Constructing and consolidating the standard employment relationship in international labour regulation. Constructing the pillars of the SER : the interwar and immediate postwar years ; Stripping the SER of its exclusions : the era of formal equality ; The resilience of the baseline -- The partial eclipse of the SER and the dynamics of SER-centrism in International Labour Regulations. A portrait of the SER in Australia, Canada, the EU 15, and the United States, 1980s-2006 ; SER-Centrism at the margins of late-capitalist labour markets ; Regulating part-time, fixed-term, temporary agency work, and self employment -- Regulating part-time employment : equal treatment and its limits. The deterioration of standardized working time ; SER-centric responses to precariousness in part-time employment : the ILO Convention on part-time work (1994) ; Regulating part-time employment in Australia ; Lessons from Australia and alternative possibilities -- Regulating temporary employment : equal treatment, qualified. The erosion of the open-ended employment relationship ; SER-centric responses to precariousness in temporary employment in the EU ; Regulating temporary agency work in the EU 15 ; Lessons from the EU 15 and alternative possibilities -- Self-employment and the regulation of the employment relationship : from equal treatment to effective protection. The destabilization of the employment relationship at the crux of the SER ; SER-centric responses to precariousness in work for renumeration at cusp of the employment relationship : ILO actions, 1990-2006 ; Approaches to regulating self-employment in industrialized market economy countries ; Lessons from industrialized market economy countries and alternative possibilities -- Alternatives to the SER. Why there is no returning to the SER ; A tiered SER ; A 'flexible SER' ; 'Beyond employment' ; Towards an alternative imaginary.