Gendering European Working Time Regimes

Ania Zbyszewska is Assistant Professor in Law and Work, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University.

Ania Zbyszewska's feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Introduction; 1. Theorizing the gendered politics of working time regulation in multilevel contexts; 2. The European Union universe of political discourse on working time: from security to flexibility and beyond; 3. The European Union Working Time Directive: laying the gender-neutral foundation for a flexible working time regime; 4. The Polish working time regime from socialism to the liberal democracy: long hours, women's double burden, and social reproduction; 5. Consolidating flexibility: the Polish working time regime, gender, and social reproduction in the run-up to and since the European Union accession; 6. Social reproduction, gender, working time regulation: change on the bedrock of continuity; Appendix A. Statistical tables; Appendix B. Key features of the Polish working time regime over the years; Appendix C. Key labour code amendments 2001¿9: provisions on working time and work-family reconciliation.