Working Difference: Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995

Éva Fodor

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Working Difference

Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995

Éva Fodor
Edited by: Andrew Gordon , Daniel James and Alexander Keyssar

In the series Comparative and international working-class history

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384489

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About this book

This manuscript compares the status of women in capitalist Austria and (post-) socialist Hungary in the period from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on women's inclusion in, and exclusion from, the labor force and political organizations.

Author / Editor information

Éva Fodor is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

“Éva Fodor's compelling analysis of gendered mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the workplaces of state-socialist Hungary and capitalist Austria provides a welcome set of comparative insights to the burgeoning literature on gender, states, and societies, and speaks to core questions in feminism and studies of inequality.”—Ann Shola Orloff, coauthor, States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States

“Working Difference contains much fascinating new material and exciting analysis. It will make an important contribution to gender theory and to the study of postsocialist stratification. This book is one of only a small handful that directly compare Eastern and Western European political economies and one of the only ones that compares gender regimes. It will have a wide influence on discussions of gender regimes, welfare states, and the historical role of state socialism.”—Susan Gal, coauthor of The Politics of Gender after Socialism

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Three Generations of Women in Central Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Gender Regimes East and West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. From ‘‘K und K’’ to ‘‘Communism versus Capitalism’’: The Social Worlds of Austria and Hungary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Exclusion versus Limited Inclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Mechanisms of Exclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
6. Conditions of Inclusion: Examining State Policies in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1995 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
7. Difference at Work: A Case Study of Hungary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
8. Convergence in the Twenty-First Century? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Appendix A. Data Sets, Samples, and Definition of Variables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Appendix B. Chronology of Legislation Targeting or Affecting Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 220
Illustrations
- Other: 15 tables

eBook

Published: January 20, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384489