Gendering European working time regimes : the working time directive and the case of Poland / Ania Zbyszewska.
2016
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Author
Title
Gendering European working time regimes : the working time directive and the case of Poland / Ania Zbyszewska.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KJE3145 .Z39 2016
ISBN
9781107121256
1107121256
1107121256
Description
xv, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)943670624
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Victoria, 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-289) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables
x
Acknowledgements
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Table of Cases
xv
Introduction
1
Working Time as a Gendered Issue at the European Union Level
2
Aims and Scope of the Study
4
Book's Approach and Contribution
8
Sources of Data
13
Book Organization and Chapter Summaries
14
1.
Theorizing the Gendered Politics of Working-time Regulation in Multi-level Contexts
20
1.1.
Introduction
20
1.2.
Contextualizing Legal Norms in the Universe of Political Discourse
22
1.3.
Political Discourses and Labour Law in Multi-level Contexts
25
1.4.
Towards a Gendered Labour Law Analysis -- Social Reproduction, Gender, and the Regulation of Working Time
30
1.4.1.
Theorizing Social Reproduction
33
1.4.2.
Institutionalization of Social Reproduction -- Gender Orders, Regimes, Contracts
42
1.4.3.
Time, Working-time Regimes, and the Standard Employment Relationship
45
1.5.
Conclusion
51
2.
European Union Universe of Political Discourse on Working Time -- from Security to Flexibility and Beyond
53
2.1.
Introduction
53
2.2.
From Security to Flexibility -- Defining the Terms of the Working-time Debate
55
2.2.1.
Shifting the Priorities in the Debate on Working Time
55
2.2.2.
Defining Flexibility and its Three Dimensions
57
2.3.
European Working-time Regulation -- the Terrain of Competing Discourses
62
2.3.1.
Institutional Framework of Social Europe
63
2.3.2.
Between Security and Flexibility -- Fostering Economic Efficiency and Combating Unemployment as Rationales for Community Working-time Regulation
72
2.3.3.
Limiting Flexibility, or Embedding Flexibility? -- Health and Safety and the 1993 Working Time Directive
78
2.3.4.
Working-time Flexibility Beyond Economic Efficiency -- Reconciliation of Work and Family, and Gender Equality
81
2.4.
Taking Gender Seriously?
85
2.5.
Conclusion
89
3.
European Union Working Time Directive -- Laying the Gender-neutral Foundation for a Flexible Working-time Regime
91
3.1.
Introduction
91
3.2.
1993 Working Time Directive
92
3.2.1.
Minimum Standards and Maximum Flexibility
94
3.2.2.
UK's European Court of Justice Challenge
98
3.2.3.
Diluting the Standards, Narrowing the Political Discourse
99
3.3.
Working Time Directive Review and Failed Revision Attempt
100
3.3.1.
Developments Related to the Working Time Directive
102
3.3.2.
Working Time Directive 2004 to 2009 Revision Process
109
3.3.3.
2009 Revision Debacle
117
3.4.
Regulating Working Time -- Missing Gender?
122
3.5.
Conclusion
128
4.
Polish Working-time Regime from Socialism to the Liberal Democracy --Long Hours, Women's Double Burden, and Social Reproduction
132
4.1.
Introduction
132
4.2.
`What Have You Done to Achieve the Plan?' -- the Discourse of Civic Duty and the Structural Causes of Long-hours Work in the People's Republic
134
4.2.1.
Introduction
134
4.2.2.
People's Republic Working-time Regime, 1945--1989
138
4.2.3.
Working Time and Social Reproduction in the People's Republic -- the State's Provision and Women's Double Burden
142
4.3.
Polish Working-time Regime in Transition -- `Catching Up' with the West
153
4.3.1.
`Making' the Market Economy in Poland
154
4.3.2.
Working-time Regime in Poland, 1989--1996
159
4.3.3.
Shifting the Balance, Keeping the Double Burden -- Working-time, Women, and Social Reproduction in Post-transition Poland
163
4.4.
Into the New Millennium -- Political Discourses of the Late 1990s and Beyond
164
4.5.
Conclusion
167
5.
Consolidating Flexibility -- Polish Working-time Regime, Gender, and Social Reproduction in the Run-up to and Since the European Union Accession
170
5.1.
Introduction
170
5.2.
Modernizing the Polish Labour Code
172
5.2.1.
Regulating for the Market and to Comply with Europe
173
5.2.2.
Labour Code Amendments between 2000 and 2004
179
5.2.3.
Developments After Accession -- Work-family Reconciliation
202
5.2.4.
2009 Anti-Crisis Bill as the `Experimental Field' for Flexibility
208
5.3.
Polish Working-time Regime, Gender, and Social Reproduction
210
5.4.
Conclusion
217
6.
Social Reproduction, Gender, Working-time Regulation -- Change on the Bedrock of Continuity
220
6.1.
Introduction
220
6.2.
Gender and Working Time -- Continuity and Change
221
6.3.
Europeanization of the Polish Working-time Regime
225
6.4.
Towards a More Egalitarian and Socially Sustainable Model of Working-time Regulation?
228
Appendix A
Statistical Tables
235
Appendix B
Key Features of the Polish Working-time Regime Over the Years
239
Appendix C
Key Labour Code Amendments 2001--2009 Provisions on Working Time and Work-family Reconciliation
242
References
246
Index
290