Pilar Carrasquer

Double Presence, Paid Work, and Domestic-Family Work

Double presence, which is understood as the need to respond simultaneously to the demands of paid and domestic-family work, mostly affects women and may negatively affect their health. Our hypothesis is that double presence increases as a function of the demands of domestic-family work, but is also associated with management practices related to the availability of time for paid work, prolonged and atypical work schedules, and heightened demands. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of the salaried population in Spain. Information was gathered through a standardized questionnaire administered through home visits. Statistical analysis shows a relationship between double presence and the demands of increased work schedules, rotating schedules, irregular schedules, and exposure to psychosocial risks (high quantitative and emotional psychological demands). Double presence should be considered as a variable in the evaluation of psychosocial risks, and collective bargaining should consider negotiating clauses that can impact it positively.

La política de conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar en la negociación colectiva. Un aspecto de la estrategia europea de empleo

The conciliation between work, family and personal life is a new issue in the Spanish collective bargaining. In our opinion, the European Employment Strategy has played an important role in the dissemination of this topic, called as «spill-over effect». Anyway, the social actors have different conceptions about the conciliation. From Human Resource of companies usually trend to managing this topic as an element of differentiation of work force, according with different levels, qualification and skill. On the contrary, trade unions and work council tray to manage this topic, as an aspect of collective action but often the conciliation is also understood as an expression of personals and labour situations so match different. Also the aim of unions is to manage this topic as a progress of «personal» rights.

Jóvenes, empleo y desigualdades de género.

En este articulo se plantean unas primeras reflexiones en relacion a que supone y que aporta una mirada de genero al estudio de la juventud y el empleo. En el caso espanol, esta problematica adquiere un interes particular porque la situacion de los jovenes, y en especial de las jovenes, se relaciona a cambios socio-culturales vinculados no solo a un cambio generacional, sino tambien a un cambio notorio respecto a las formas de afrontar el empleo por parte de las jovenes espanolas en relacion a las mas habituales en las adultas. En este sentido, para algunos especialistas, el hecho de prestar una atencion especifica a la realidad laboral de las jovenes dejaria de tener sentido porque esa realidad tenderia ya a ser equiparable a la de los hombres de su misma edad. Por el contrario, a lo largo de este articulo se defiende la propiedad de la perspectiva de genero como herramienta que permite un mejor conocimiento del binomio juventud y empleo. Asi se argumenta la existencia de jovenes en masculino y de jovenes en femenino, siendo la juventud un momento significativo desde el punto de vista de la construccion de esas identidades y practicas sociales sexuadas, pero incompleto porque los efectos de ser joven de genero masculino o de genero femenino sobre el empleo no se limitan a un momento particular en la trayectoria vital de las personas.

Mercato del lavoro e immigrazione in Spagna

This article presents an analysis of the career paths of immigrant men and women in order to study the Spanish employment model. It takes into account the influence of changes in the sexual division of labour along the career paths. The main objective is to show the features of work and personal life of the immigrant population in the construction and care sectors. The results describe the impact that structural factors such as gender and ethnicity have on the career paths. The crossroads between gender and ethnicity creates a so-called “status inconsistency” defining in large part the career paths of immigrants. Work trajectories are characterized by a continuum transition between formal and informal sectors, becoming the social model of immigrant employment

Mercato del lavoro e immigrazione in Spagna: disuguaglianze di genere e di etnia

This article presents an analysis of the career paths of immigrant men and women in order to study the Spanish employment model. It takes into account the influence of changes in the sexual division of labour along the career paths. The main objective is to show the features of work and personal life of the immigrant population in the construction and care sectors. The results describe the impact that structural factors such as gender and ethnicity have on the career paths. The crossroads between gender and ethnicity creates a so-called “status inconsistency” defining in large part the career paths of immigrants. Work trajectories are characterized by a continuum transition between formal and informal sectors, becoming the social model of immigrant employment.