ISBN:
9781442679290
,
1442679298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 544 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Restructuring work and the life course
DDC:
306.36
Keywords:
Work Sociological aspects
;
Travail Aspect sociologique
;
Sociologie industrielle
;
Industrial sociology
;
Work Sociological aspects
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
;
Industrial sociology
;
Work ; Sociological aspects
;
Industriesoziologie
;
Arbeitssoziologie
;
Arbeid
;
Beroepspraktijk
;
Levensloop
;
Uittreding (loopbaan)
;
Sociale verandering
;
Livres numériques
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Major economic, technological and demographic forces are combining to influence the ways in which the very structures of people's lives are changed by the work they do. The major defining features of life course, including patterns of entry to and exit from work, are shifting, as is the very nature of jobs and careers. In this multidisciplinary collection of essays, forty-eight social scientists from seven countries examine changes in the organization of work and their impact on people at various stages of the life course. In seeking to consolidate and advance life course theory, the four editors of this volume have sought out and encouraged a wide range of approaches to life course theorizing, methodologies, and research designs. The contributing scholars examine the influence of economic, technological, and demographic forces on public, corporate, and union policies concerning the organisation of work. The topics covered include: education, labour market change, and transitions in the earlier and middle stages of the working life course; later life transitions in relation to the restructuring of work, and retirement transitions; and various aspects of the relationship between individual biography and social structure, with close attention to gender and family issues over the life course
Abstract:
Preface: Resturcturing Work and the Life Course: Challenges for Comparative Research and Policyix --1Work and the Life Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective /Walter R. Heinz3 --Part 1Education, Labour Market, and Transitions in the Working Life Course /Introduction by Walter R. Heinz23 --2Youth, Transitions, and the New World of Work /Graham S. Lowe29 --3Dutch Labour Market since 1971: Trends in Overeducation and Displacement /Marco de Witte, Ronald Batenburg45 --4Transition from Vocational Training to Employment in Germany: Does Region Matter? /Hildegard Schaeper, Thomas Kuhn, Andreas Witzel61 --5Restructuring Work, Restructuring Gender: The Movement of Women into Non-traditional Occupations in Canada /Karen D. Hughes84 --6Contested Terrain: Women in German Research Organizations /Jutta Allmendinger, Stefan Fuchs, Janina von Stebut, Christine Wimbauer107 --7Polarization of Working Time and Gender Differences: Reconciling Family and Work by Reducing Working Time of Men and Women /Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay123 --8Balancing Employment and Family Lives: Changing Life-course Experiences of Men and Women in the European Union /Susan Yeandle142 --9Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany /Reinhard Kreckel, Sabine Schenk159 --10Unemployment and Its Consequences for Mental Health /William R. Avison177 --11Family Turning-points and Career Transitions at Midlife /Deborah Carr, Jennifer Sheridan201 --Part 2Later Life: Restructuring Work and the Transition from Employment to Retirement /Introduction by Victor W. Marshall, Anil Verma229 --12From Officers to Gentlemen: Army Generals and the Passage to Retirement /James J. Dowd233 --13Gender Differences in Transitions to Total-work Retirement /Leroy O. Stone, Andrew S. Harvey258 --14Linking Technology, Work, and the Life Course: Findings from the NOVA Case Study /Donna C. Chan, Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall270 --15Is There Life after Career Employment? Labour-market Experience of Early 'Retirees' /Gangaram Singh, Anil Verma288 --16Downsizing and the Life-course Consequences of Job Loss: The Effect of Age and Gender on Employment and Income Security /Jill Quadagno, David MacPherson, Jennifer Reid Keene, Lori Parham303 --17Generational and Life-course Patterns of Occupational Retrenchment and Retirement of South African Migrant Labourers /Robin L. Oakley319 --18Changing Working Patterns and the Public-Private Mix in Old-age Security: The Example of Germany /Winfried Schmahl332 --19Japan's Current Policy Focus on Longer Employment for Older People /Takeshi Kimura, Masato Oka348 --20Career Break as an Alternative to Early-exit Schemes /Peter Simoens, Jan Denys360 --21Restructuring Work in an Aging America: What Role for Public Policy? /Sara E. Rix375 --Part 3Biography and Social Structure: Stability and Change /Introduction by Helga Kruger397 --22Social Change in Two Generations: Employment Patterns and Their Costs for Family Life /Helga Kruger401 --23Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender /Phyllis Moen, Shin-Kap Han424 --24Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field /Kathleen Gerson446 --25Engineers and the Western Canadian Oil Industry: Work and Life Changes in a Boom-and-bust Decade /Gillian Ranson462 --26Baby Boomers in Transition: Life-course Experiences of the 'Class of '73' /Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod473 --27Becoming a Mother or a Worker: Structure and Agency in Young Adult Women's Accounts of Education, Training, Employment, and Partnership /Ian Procter489 --28Returning to Work after Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Qualifications in Mothers' Return to Paid Employment /Jane Elliott, Angela Dale, Muriel Egerton505 --29Reconstructing Life Courses: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Experiences /Dirk Hoerder525.
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