"Contents" [2011] ELECD 856; in Busby, Nicole; James, Grace (eds), "Families, Care-giving and Paid Work" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Families, Care-giving and Paid Work

Editor(s): Busby, Nicole; James, Grace

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802628

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1
Nicole Busby and Grace James

PART I: WORK­FAMILY CHALLENGES

1 Reconciling employment and family care-giving: a gender
analysis of current challenges and future directions for
UK policy 13
Suzi Macpherson

2 Atypical working in Europe and the impact on work­family
reconciliation 31
Clare Lyonette

3 Is there a fundamental right to reconcile work and family life
in the EU? 52
Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

PART II: NATIONAL APPROACHES AND CROSS-NATIONAL
CONSIDERATIONS

4 The rights and realities of balancing work and family life in
New Zealand 69
Annick Masselot

5 Law's response to the reconciliation of work and care: the
Australian case 86
Sara Charlesworth



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6 Parental leave rights in Italy: reconciling gender ideologies
with the demands of Europeanization 104
Roberta Guerrina

7 Comparative lessons on work­family conflict ­ Swedish
parental leave versus American parental leave 116
Michelle Weldon-Johns

PART III: ACCOMMODATING CARE

8 Care-giving and reasonable adjustment in the UK 137
Rachel Horton

9 Reconciling care-giving and work in Ireland: the contribution
of protection against family status discrimination 153
Olivia Smith

PART IV: CHANGING FOCUS

10 Child welfare and work­family reconciliation policies: lessons
from family law 173
Grace James and Thérèse Callus

11 Unpaid care-giving and paid work within a rights framework:
towards reconciliation? 189
Nicole Busby

Bibliography 204
Index 227