Youth, gender and part‐time employment
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Employee Relations
- Vol. 19 (1) , 51-66
- https://doi.org/10.1108/01425459710163589
Abstract
Increasing numbers of full‐time students at school, college and university are combining study with work in marginal, flexible, low‐ paid, part‐time service jobs. The employment relationship is highly informal and the contract may simply be the product of coincidence, because the idea that employers follow a particular strategy with regard to the employment of labour, simplifies the complexities and vagaries of the labour market. Although this phenomenon is bringing more young males into the part‐time labour force, young females remain disadvantaged in regard to the substantive terms of the effort/reward exchange. These factors necessitate a rethink and revision of the main theories of labour force analysis.Keywords
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