Women Working Longer
Women Working Longer

Author: Claudia Goldin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 022653264X

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Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon of working longer. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are connected to women’s later-in-life work. Other contributors to the volume investigate additional factors that may play a role in late-life labor supply, such as marital disruption, household finances, and access to retirement benefits. A pioneering study of recent trends in older women’s labor force participation, this collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of social scientists, employers, and policy makers.

Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy
Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy

Author: Diane Perrons

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1845428978

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Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with reference to working patterns and gender divisions in Northern and Western Europe and the United States.

Part-Time Prospects
Part-Time Prospects

Author: Colette Fagan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-31

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 113473042X

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The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years. Part-Time Prospects presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. It brings together sociologists and economists in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey. It tackles such areas as gender issues, ethnic questions and the differences between certain national economies including low pay, pensions and labour standards.

Working With Men For Change
Working With Men For Change

Author: Jim Wild.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1135358907

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This is a work that reflects the growing interest in issues relating to men and masculinities. This diverse collection by a team of contributors analyzes the composition and representation of masculine identities. Combining research with theory and strategies for activism, the work promotes practical ways of working with men to achieve change. Intentionally designed as a handbook, it provides effective and practical information for professionals in social welfare settings, trainers and activists in the community, as well as individual men who have their own personal agenda for change.

All Change at Work?
All Change at Work?

Author: Alex Bryson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1134625138

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This book is the latest publication reporting the results of a series of workplace surveys conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service and the Policy Studies Institute. It addresses such contemporary employee relations issues as: * Have new configurations of labour-management practices become embedded in the British economy? * Did the dramatic decline in trade union representation in the 1980s continue throughout the 1990s, leaving more employees without a voice? * Are the vestiges of union organisation at the workplace a hollow shell? The focus of this book is on change, captured by gathering together the enormous bank of data from all four of the large-scale and highly respected surveys, and plotting trends from 1980 to the present. In addition, a special panel of workplaces, surveyed in both 1990 and 1998, reveals the complex processes of change. Comprehensive in scope, the results are statistically reliable and reveal the nature and extent of change in all bar the smallest British workplaces. A key text for anyone interested in employment and the changing world of work, whether as student, researcher, teacher, analyst, adviser or practitioner.

Women and European Employment
Women and European Employment

Author: Colette Fagan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1134700393

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This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date study of the contribution of women and men to changing European economic activity patterns covering all fifteen member states. Based on the work of the European Commission's network of experts on women's employment, it draws on both national and European data sources. The book links trends in the structures of employment with new comparative data on the role of systems of welfare provision in order to explore economic activity patterns by gender. Participation patterns of women still vary widely within Europe, so much attention is paid to the institutions - both in the labour market and welfare - which help to explain these variations.

Organisations, Careers and Caring
Organisations, Careers and Caring

Author: Crompton, Rosemary

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2003-11-19

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1861345003

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As the number of working mothers Increases, many employers are promoting work-life balance policies. This report looks at the effects of these employment changes on the lives of both women and men.

Gendered Jobs and Social Change
Gendered Jobs and Social Change

Author: Rosemary Crompton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-20

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1040165591

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Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of women’s paid work in Britain since the Second World War and an invaluable and accessible text for undergraduate students, and teachers and researchers, in the areas of employment, gender, and class theory. Four substantial case-study chapters, drawing upon original research material, give in-depth accounts of developments across the whole range of women’s employment, from the ‘post-feminist’ finance professional to unskilled workers in the hotel and catering industry. This empirical work is set within a context of discussion relating to current theoretical debates of the time concerning gender, occupational segregation, and class and stratification theory and research; it is then complemented by a review of the structure of women’s employment in other western countries. Besides making an original contribution to research and theory, it also provides an invaluable summary and critique of developments at the time within a series of important sociological debates.

Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture
Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture

Author: Seema Bathla

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9811060142

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This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through multiple pathways that also tackle varied geographical locations, making it a highly useful guide to understanding the changing contours in agriculture and rural areas across the country and among rural households with various social and economic backgrounds.