Part-time work and caring responsibilities in Australia: towards an assessment of job quality
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2005
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Chalmers, J.
Campbell, I.
Charlesworth, S.C.M.
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Labour & Industry, 2005
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Part-time work (for women) is often put forward as a solution to the problems of balancing paid work and caring responsibilities. This assessment is too shalloVl-: It neglects the crucial issue ofthe quality ofthe part-time job. Poor quality part-time work may worsen problems ofwork andfamily imbalance rather than contribute to their solution. Good quality part-time work is the main path forward. This is a preliminmy paper, which focuses on introducing the topic and outlining several dimensions other than just number of hours - that are important in any assessment ofthe quality of part-time jobs.
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