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1 online resource (xiv, 544 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface: Resturcturing Work and the Life Course: Challenges for Comparative Research and Policy ix -- 1 Work and the Life Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective / Walter R. Heinz 3 -- Part 1 Education, Labour Market, and Transitions in the Working Life Course / Introduction by Walter R. Heinz 23 -- 2 Youth, Transitions, and the New World of Work / Graham S. Lowe 29 -- 3 Dutch Labour Market since 1971: Trends in Overeducation and Displacement / Marco de Witte, Ronald Batenburg 45 -- 4 Transition from Vocational Training to Employment in Germany: Does Region Matter? / Hildegard Schaeper, Thomas Kuhn, Andreas Witzel 61 -- 5 Restructuring Work, Restructuring Gender: The Movement of Women into Non-traditional Occupations in Canada / Karen D. Hughes 84 -- 6 Contested Terrain: Women in German Research Organizations / Jutta Allmendinger, Stefan Fuchs, Janina von Stebut, Christine Wimbauer 107 -- 7 Polarization of Working Time and Gender Differences: Reconciling Family and Work by Reducing Working Time of Men and Women / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 123 -- 8 Balancing Employment and Family Lives: Changing Life-course Experiences of Men and Women in the European Union / Susan Yeandle 142 -- 9 Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany / Reinhard Kreckel, Sabine Schenk 159 -- 10 Unemployment and Its Consequences for Mental Health / William R. Avison 177 -- 11 Family Turning-points and Career Transitions at Midlife / Deborah Carr, Jennifer Sheridan 201 -- Part 2 Later Life: Restructuring Work and the Transition from Employment to Retirement / Introduction by Victor W. Marshall, Anil Verma 229 -- 12 From Officers to Gentlemen: Army Generals and the Passage to Retirement / James J. Dowd 233 -- 13 Gender Differences in Transitions to Total-work Retirement / Leroy O. Stone, Andrew S. Harvey 258 -- 14 Linking Technology, Work, and the Life Course: Findings from the NOVA Case Study / Donna C. Chan, Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall 270 -- 15 Is There Life after Career Employment? Labour-market Experience of Early 'Retirees' / Gangaram Singh, Anil Verma 288 -- 16 Downsizing and the Life-course Consequences of Job Loss: The Effect of Age and Gender on Employment and Income Security / Jill Quadagno, David MacPherson, Jennifer Reid Keene, Lori Parham 303 -- 17 Generational and Life-course Patterns of Occupational Retrenchment and Retirement of South African Migrant Labourers / Robin L. Oakley 319 -- 18 Changing Working Patterns and the Public-Private Mix in Old-age Security: The Example of Germany / Winfried Schmahl 332 -- 19 Japan's Current Policy Focus on Longer Employment for Older People / Takeshi Kimura, Masato Oka 348 -- 20 Career Break as an Alternative to Early-exit Schemes / Peter Simoens, Jan Denys 360 -- 21 Restructuring Work in an Aging America: What Role for Public Policy? / Sara E. Rix 375 -- Part 3 Biography and Social Structure: Stability and Change / Introduction by Helga Kruger 397 -- 22 Social Change in Two Generations: Employment Patterns and Their Costs for Family Life / Helga Kruger 401 -- 23 Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender / Phyllis Moen, Shin-Kap Han 424 -- 24 Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field / Kathleen Gerson 446 -- 25 Engineers and the Western Canadian Oil Industry: Work and Life Changes in a Boom-and-bust Decade / Gillian Ranson 462 -- 26 Baby Boomers in Transition: Life-course Experiences of the 'Class of '73' / Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod 473 -- 27 Becoming a Mother or a Worker: Structure and Agency in Young Adult Women's Accounts of Education, Training, Employment, and Partnership / Ian Procter 489 -- 28 Returning to Work after Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Qualifications in Mothers' Return to Paid Employment / Jane Elliott, Angela Dale, Muriel Egerton 505 -- 29 Reconstructing Life Courses: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Experiences / Dirk Hoerder 525 |
| Summary |
Major economic, technological and demographic forces are combining to influence the ways in which the very structures of people's lives are changed by the work they do. The major defining features of life course, including patterns of entry to and exit from work, are shifting, as is the very nature of jobs and careers. In this multidisciplinary collection of essays, forty-eight social scientists from seven countries examine changes in the organization of work and their impact on people at various stages of the life course. In seeking to consolidate and advance life course theory, the four editors of this volume have sought out and encouraged a wide range of approaches to life course theorizing, methodologies, and research designs. The contributing scholars examine the influence of economic, technological, and demographic forces on public, corporate, and union policies concerning the organisation of work. The topics covered include: education, labour market change, and transitions in the earlier and middle stages of the working life course; later life transitions in relation to the restructuring of work, and retirement transitions; and various aspects of the relationship between individual biography and social structure, with close attention to gender and family issues over the life course |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Work -- Sociological aspects
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Industrial sociology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Industrial sociology
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Work -- Sociological aspects
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Industriesoziologie
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Arbeitssoziologie
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Arbeid.
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Beroepspraktijk.
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Levensloop.
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Uittreding (loopbaan)
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Sociale verandering.
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Electronic books
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e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marshall, Victor W
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| LC no. |
2001277705 |
| ISBN |
9781442679290 |
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1442679298 |
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128203717X |
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9781282037175 |
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