1. A new labour market segmentation approach for analysing inequalities: introduction and overview - Damian Grimshaw, Colette Fagan, Gail Hebson and Isabel Tavora PART I: Conceptual issues: employment standards, networks and worker voice 2. Autonomous bargaining in the shadow of the law: from an enabling towards a disabling state? - Gerhard Bosch and Steffen Lehndorff 3. The persistence of, and challenges to, societal effects in the context of global competition - Phil Almond 4. The networked organisation: implications for jobs and inequality - Rosemary Batt and Eileen Appelbaum 5. The challenges for fair voice in liberal market economies - Mick Marchington and Tony Dundon 6. Working-time flexibility: diversification and the rise of fragmented time systems - Iain Campbell PART II: International evidence: precarious employment and gender inequality 7. Labour segmentation and precariousness in Spain: theories and evidence - Josep Banyuls and Albert Recio 8. Subsidiary employment in Italy: can commodification of labour be self-limiting? - Francesca Bettio and Alberto Mazzon 9. Job quality: conceptual and methodological challenges for comparative analysis - Agnieszka Piasna, Brendan Burchell, Kirsten Sehnbruch and Nurjk Agloni 10. Working longer and harder? A critical assessment of work effort in Britain in European comparison - Alan Felstead and Francis Green 11. Plague, patriarchy and 'girl power' - Jane Humphries 12. Two-child policy in China: a blessing or a curse for the employment of female university graduates? - Fang Lee Cooke PART III: Convergence, divergence and the importance of regulating for decent work 13. The social reproduction of youth labour market inequalities: the effects of gender, households and ethnicity - Jacqueline O'Reilly, Mark Smith and Paola Villa 14. Labour policies in a deflationary environment - Annamaria Simonazzi 15. Uncertainty and undecidability in the contemporary state: the dualist and complex role of the state in Spanish labour and employment relations - Miguel Martinez Lucio 16. Work and care regimes and women's employment outcomes: Australia, France and Sweden compared - Dominique Anxo, Marian Baird and Christine Erhel 17. Minimum wages and the remaking of the wage-setting systems in Greece and the UK - Maria Karamessini and Damian Grimshaw Index