The Fixed-Term Contract, the Spanish Route to Flexibility? Women in the Retail Sector in the Barcelona Region

Maria-Dolors Garcia-Ramon and Anna Ortiz
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Anna Ortiz: Autonomous University of Barcelona

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2000, vol. 21, issue 3, 311-333

Abstract: The recent process of globalization of the economy has revived the debate on types of work contracts throughout Europe, and flexible employment has been strongly advocated as a solution to problems like persistent unemployment and decreasing competitiveness. Spain has experienced a recent political development rather different from that of the European core, which has shaped a peculiar form of labour market regulation and which has led to the country's indisputable and undesirable leadership in Europe in terms of the proportion of short-term contracts. This article addresses some basic issues of the 'flexibilization' of labour relations in the Spanish context, with particular emphasis on the retail sector in Barcelona.

Keywords: Barcelona; equal opportunities; fixed-term contract; flexible work; precarious work; retail sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X00213003

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