Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America
This book provides the first comparative study of the long-term development of women's part-time work in Europe and the United States from 1950 onwards. The authors analyze a wealth of longitudinal and cross-sectional data on the work force, generating a powerful critique of the dominant theories that part-time work equalizes women's position vis à vis full-time workers or leaves women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead, the study asserts, women's increasing part-time employment...
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This book provides the first comparative study of the long-term development of women's part-time work in Europe and the United States from 1950 onwards. The authors analyze a wealth of longitudinal and cross-sectional data on the work force, generating a powerful critique of the dominant theories that part-time work equalizes women's position vis à vis full-time workers or leaves women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead, the study asserts, women's increasing part-time employment in modern societies must be examined in the context of the sexual division of labor within the family. Booknews Using longitudinal and cross-sectional data from individual countries, explores the long-term development of women's part- time work since World War II. Focuses on three contrasting tenets: women's increase participation in the labor force, regardless of its form, reduces their dependence on men and leads to greater equality between men and women on the job and in the family; the expansion of part-time work among women disadvantages and marginalizes them in the labor market and the family; and within the context of the sexual division of labor in the family, part-time jobs and other low-paid or non-career jobs, can be not only tolerated but enthusiastically appreciated by dependent wives and other second-income earners. The 13 studies have been oft revised since original presentations at a 1993 seminar in Bremen, Germany. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
List of TablesList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1Introduction: A Comparative Perspective on Part-Time Work12A Sociological Perspective on Part-Time Work223Part-Time Work in Central and Eastern European Countries714Full-Time and Part-Time Employment of Women in Greece: Trends and Relationships with Life-Cycle Events905Part-Time Work in Italy1136The Family Cycle and the Growth of Part-Time Female Employment in France: Boon or Doom?1337Part-Time Work in West Germany1648Female Labour-Market Participation in the Netherlands: Developments in the Relationship between Family Cycle and Employment1919Part-Time Work among British Women21010Women's Employment and Part-Time Work in Denmark24711Managing Work and Children: Part-Time Work and the Family Cycle of Swedish Women27212Part-Time Work in the United States of America28913Women's Part-Time Employment and the Family Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison315Name Index325Subject Index330
\ BooknewsUsing longitudinal and cross-sectional data from individual countries, explores the long-term development of women's part- time work since World War II. Focuses on three contrasting tenets: women's increase participation in the labor force, regardless of its form, reduces their dependence on men and leads to greater equality between men and women on the job and in the family; the expansion of part-time work among women disadvantages and marginalizes them in the labor market and the family; and within the context of the sexual division of labor in the family, part-time jobs and other low-paid or non-career jobs, can be not only tolerated but enthusiastically appreciated by dependent wives and other second-income earners. The 13 studies have been oft revised since original presentations at a 1993 seminar in Bremen, Germany. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
