| Description |
1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: A Comparative Perspective on Work and Gender -- 2: An Overview of the Major Issues -- Part I: Categorical Messages: Thinking and Rethinking Gender Relations -- Introduction to Part I -- Intersections: Gender Categories in Time and Space -- 3: Time and Women's Work: Historical Periodisations -- 4: Where Have They Been Working and What Have They Been Doing? Historical Perspectives on Working Women |
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5: Immigrant Women and Their Daughters: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender -- 6: The Sexual Division of Labour Re-Examined -- 7: Re-Signifying the Worker: Gender and Flexibility -- Part II: Be Prepared: Education, Training, and Skilling -- Introduction to Part II -- Variations on Women's and Men's Occupations -- 8: A Hidden Curriculum? Coeducation and Gender Identity -- 9: The Social Construction of Skill -- 10: Secretarial Work and Technological Change -- 11: The French and German Educational Models and Their Consequences for Women |
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Part III: Women's Relationship to Labour Markets: More and More Precarious? -- Introduction to Part III -- (Wo)man-Handled by the Labour Market -- 12: The Enduring Wage Gap: A Europe-Wide Comparison -- 13: Part-Time Work: Challenging the "Breadwinner" Gender Contract -- 14: Female Unemployment in France and the Rest of Europe -- 15: Moving Towards the American Model? Women and Unemployment in Great Britain -- 16: When Exclusion is Socially Acceptable: The Case of Spain -- Part IV: Public Policy: Promoting Equality or Engendering New Inequalities? |
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Introduction to Part IV -- Public Sphere, Private Sphere: The Issue of Women's Rights -- 17: Equality at Work: What Difference does Legislating Make? -- 18: European Policies Promoting More Flexible Labour Forces -- 19: Family Policy and the Labour Market in European Welfare States -- 20: France's New Service Sector and the Family -- 21: Democracy Confronts the New Domestic Services -- 22: Rethinking Time: There is More to Life than Working Time -- Conclusion -- 23: The Future Remains Open |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Laufer, Jacqueline
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Maruani, Margaret
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| ISBN |
9781000160383 |
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1000160386 |
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