Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : interrogating the work/family divide / Joanne Conaghan and Kerry Rittich
Work, family, and the discipline of labour law / Joanne Conaghan
Equity or efficiency : international institutions and the work/family nexus / Kerry Rittich
Work/family, Australian labour law, and the normative worker / Anna Chapman
The right to flexibility / Hugh Collins
Recommodifying time : working hours of 'live-in' domestic workers / Guy Mundlak
The family economy versus the labour market (or housework as a legal issue) / Maria Rosaria Marella
Gender and diversification of labour forms in Japan / Mutsuko Asakura
Poor women's work experiences : gaps in the 'work/family' discussion / Lucy Williams
Work, family, and parenthood : the European Union agenda / Clare McGlynn
Taking leave : work and family in Australian law and policy / Rosemary J. Owens
A new gender contract? : work/life balance and working-time flexibility / Judy Fudge
Work and family issues in the transitional countries of central and eastern Europe : the case of Hungary / Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky
Issues of work and family in Japan / Hiroko Hayashi
A woman's world : what if care work were socialized and police/fire protection left to individual families? / Richard Michael Fischl.
Labour law, work, and family : critical and comparative perspectives. ISBN 9780199287031. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.