Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America
Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-828086-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Levels of part-time work vary enormously across industrial society, from 66 per cent among women in the Netherlands to just 8 per cent among women in Greece. Part-time work was almost unknown in Eastern Europe, but is now growing rapidly in the same sectors of industry as in Western Europe and the USA.
Between Equalization and Marginalization provides a comparative analysis of the development of part-time work in Europe and the USA from 1950 onwards, using longitudinal and cross-sectional data, and reassesses the competing theories and conflicting perspectives so far offered on the growth of part-time work among women. It concludes that part-time work does not equalize women's position vis à vis full-time workers, nor does it leave women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead, it shows that part-time jobs provide new opportunities for secondary earners and play a special role in the context of the sexual division of labour in the family.
The country reports - by national experts - cover the USA, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, West Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, and Poland. Two chapters by the editors synthesize the results and assess their theoretical implications.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1.: Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Catherine Hakim: Introduction: A Comparative Perspective on Part-Time Work
- 2.: Catherine Hakim: A Sociological Perspective on Part-Time Work
- 3.: Sonja Drobnic: Part-Time Work in Central and Eastern European Countries
- 4.: Haris Symeonidou: Full and Part-Time Employment of Women in Greece: Trends and Relationships with Life-Cycle Events
- 5.: Tindara Addabbo: Part-Time Work in Italy
- 6.: Laurence Coutrot, Irene Fournier, Annick Kieffer and Eva Lelievre: The Family Cycle and the Growth of Part-Time Female Employment in France: Boon or Doom?
- 7.: Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Götz Rohwer: Part-Time Work in West-Germany
- 8.: Paul de Graaf and Hedwig Vermeulen: Female Labour Market Participation in the Netherlands: Developments in the Relationship between Family Cycle and Employment
- 9.: Brendan Burchell, Angela Dale, and Heather Joshi: Part-Time Work Among British Women
- 10.: Soren Leth-Sorensen and Götz Rohwer: Women's Employment and Part-Time Work in Denmark
- 11.: Marianne Sundström: Managing Work and Children: Part-Time Work and the Family Cycle of Swedish Women
- 12.: Sonja Drobnic and Immo Wittig: Part-Time Work in the United States of America
- 13.: Hans-Peter Blossfeld: Women's Part-Time Employment and the Family Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison
