Zero Hours and On-call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: O'Sullivan, Michelle (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lavelle, Jonathan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McMahon, Juliet (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ryan, Lorraine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murphy, Caroline (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Turner, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gunnigle, Patrick (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Work, Organization, and Employment,
• Subjects: Personnel management.; Economic sociology.; Labor economics.; Industrial sociology.; Industrial organization.; Human Resource Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Labor Economics.; Sociology of Work.; Industrial Organization.

This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty...