Between Equalization and Marginalization
Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 August 1997
- ISBN 9780198280866
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 242x162x25 mm
- Weight 725 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This is the first comparative study of the long-term development of women's part-time work in Europe and the United States.The authors analyse a wealth of longitudinal and and cross-sectional data on the work force, generating a powerful critique of the dominant equalizing and marginalizing perspectives. They argue instead that women's increasing part-time employment in modern societies must be examined in the context of the sexual division of labour within the family.
MoreLong description:
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.
an excellent overview of trends and patterns in part-time work and the explanatory factors behind woemen's labor market decisions ... refreshing reading.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: A Comparative Perspective on Part-Time Work
A Sociological Perspective on Part-Time Work
Part-Time Work in Central and Eastern European Countries
Full and Part-Time Employment of Women in Greece: Trends and Relationships with Life-Cycle Events
Part-Time Work in Italy
The Family Cycle and the Growth of Part-Time Female Employment in France: Boon or Doom?
Part-Time Work in West-Germany
Female Labour Market Participation in the Netherlands: Developments in the Relationship between Family Cycle and Employment
Part-Time Work Among British Women
Women's Employment and Part-Time Work in Denmark
Managing Work and Children: Part-Time Work and the Family Cycle of Swedish Women
Part-Time Work in the United States of America
Women's Part-Time Employment and the Family Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison
