Changing Forms of Employment: Organizations, Skills and Gender

Economic recessions, as well as periods of growth, are obvious and immediate manifestations of change which have a direct effect on the experience of employees, households and work organizations.Changing Forms of Employmentexamines these trends which generate pressure towrds a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organizsation of production, particularly those associated with the growth of service dominated economies; the effects of technological change, particularly those associated with Information Technology; and the erosion of the "male breadwinner" (or single earner) model of employment and household. These trends have resulted in strains and ruptures in the organization and regulation of employment and related institutions including trade unions, employers and households.