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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

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  • Tracey Warren

    (University of Nottingham, UK)

  • Clare Lyonette

    (University of Warwick, UK)

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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.

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  • Tracey Warren & Clare Lyonette, 2018. "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," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 32(4), pages 747-767, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:32:y:2018:i:4:p:747-767
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017018762289
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