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

Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette
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Tracey Warren: University of Nottingham, UK
Clare Lyonette: University of Warwick, UK

Work, Employment & Society, 2018, vol. 32, issue 4, 747-767

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: gender; job quality; occupational class; part-time; recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017018762289

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