Work, Employment and Transition

Work, Employment and Transition

Author: Al Rainnie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134534973

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Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations.


Women and Democracy

Women and Democracy

Author: Jane S. Jaquette

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998-10-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780801858383

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A unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world--Latin American and Eastern and Central Europe--which have moved from authoritarian to democratic regimes. By examining various political attitudes and efforts of women as they learn to participate in the political process, contributors offer important new insights into democratic consolidation.


Democracy and Democratization

Democracy and Democratization

Author: John D Nagle

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-05-28

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780761956792

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This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within the wider context of European integration. Concluding with a summary of recent critiques of modern democ


Theorizing Transition

Theorizing Transition

Author: John Pickles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-31

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1134715641

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Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.


A Reversal of Fortunes?

A Reversal of Fortunes?

Author: Rachel Alsop

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781571819659

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German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic situation. Rachel Alsop critically examines the processes behind women's changing relationship to the labor market in eastern Germany following the collapse of state socialism and the transition to a market economy. By the 1980s women made up virtually half of the East German work force. The collapse of the GDR transformed the field of work, drastically diminishing the general demand for labor. Yet while economic and political restructuring reduced the volume of both male and female employment, it was women who bore the brunt of unemployment. In the immediate transitional period a re-masculinization of the workforce was evident, with women constituting the large part of the unemployed. Using an extensive range of both quantitative and qualitative data, the author explores the gender dynamics of the social, economic, and political restructuring of eastern Germany, thereby producing an important new context in which to examine contemporary debates on gender and work.


Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements

Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements

Author: Jill M. Bystydzienski

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780253334459

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The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women's involvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as it influences state policy and empowers women in personal relationships.


Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa

Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa

Author: Amanda Gouws

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1538160099

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This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the key question: can gender equality be designed? It provides a critical analysis of the South African Commission for Gender Equality to assess its successes and failures over a more than 20-year period and provides insight into the design of structures of national gender machineries – how they are designed influences the outcomes for gender equality. The research in this collection sheds light on choices for institutional design of national gender machineries during democratic transitions, the co-optation of institutions, the silences and collusions of those selected to work in the institutions, and the resourcing of institutions and their impact on policy making for women's substantive equality. This book will have a broad appeal for scholars of feminist institutionalism.


Women on the Polish Labor Market

Women on the Polish Labor Market

Author: Mike Ingham

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789639241145

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Can women succeed? Gender has been an issue thus far neglected in transition economies. Drawing on official statistics, an international multidisciplinary team examines how women have been affected by the labor market reforms in Poland in the transition period of the 1990s.