"Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain"

by Warren, Tracey; Lyonette, Clare (2018)

Abstract

Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but poor-quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering weak wage rates and restricted advancement opportunities. This article explores trends in part-time job quality for women up to and beyond the recession of 2008/9, and asks whether post-recessionary job quality remains differentiated by occupational class. A pre-recessionary narrowing of the part-time/full-time gap in job quality appears to have been maintained for the women in higher-level part-time jobs, while part- and full-timers in lower-level jobs suffered the worst effects of the recession, signalling deepening occupational class inequalities among working women.

Keywords

Women, Part-Time Work, Job Quality, Skills, Education, Low Quality Work

Themes

Women and Work, Women's Work in History

Links to Reference

• http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018762289
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762289
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950017018762289?casa_token=lePRMFG1gasAAAAA:GqRw451csPPpSFJtfmsQCI9OB2nHImYNb-eYWTVr5qu-ykr1pH_UqOx75-5ExntvTm_nC7HywHyHx9g
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0950017018762289?casa_token=p0fwdu6xUQ8AAAAA:oiaWvtPyFdtCheOtDbyM-fLKQzNRHQMGxbBzSZlHqrqrL2tqyqqmvh7qlre5RLhsHGNl1F3iVrLbzyU

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