Casual employment in Australia and temporary employment in Europe: developing a cross-national comparison

Title: Casual employment in Australia and temporary employment in Europe: developing a cross-national comparison
Creator: Campbell, Iain; Burgess, John
Relation: Work, Employment and Society Vol. 15, Issue 1, p. 171-184
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170122118823
Publisher: BSA Publications Ltd
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2001
Description: Labour market analysis conventionally distinguishes amongst employees according to whether their contract of employment is 'permanent' or 'temporary'. The permanent contract of employment, best understood as a contract for an indefinite term, is the central form. It has served as the crucial pivot in the development of 'industrial citizenship' during much of the twentieth century. Most advanced capitalist societies, apart from isolated exceptions such as the United States, have followed a parallel historical course, whereby permanent employment - in particular in its full-time form - was installed both as the dominant form of employment and as the standard entry-point for access to a comprehensive set of industrial rights and benefits, including minimum wages and standardised working-time arrangements (Streeck 1992).
Subject: casual employment; temporary employment; Australia; Europe; cross-national comparison
Identifier: uon:1211
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26911
Identifier: ISSN:0950-0170
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