Fodor / Eva Fodor / Gordon Working Difference

Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8448-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Comparative and international working-class history

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fodor, Éva

Eva Fodor, Fodor

Gordon, Andrew

James, Daniel

Keyssar, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Three Generations of Women in Central Europe 1

2. Gender Regimes in East and West 17

3. From “K und K” to “Communism versus Capitalism”: The Social Worlds of Austria and Hungary 39

4. Exclusion versus Limited Inclusion 61

5. Mechanisms of Exclusion 76

6. Conditions of Inclusion: Examining State Policies in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1995 104

7. Difference at Work: A Case Study of Hungary
136

8. Convergence in the Twenty-First Century?
151

Appendix A. Data Sets, Samples, and Definition of Variables
163

Appendix B. Chronology of Legislation Targeting or Affecting Women
167

Notes 173

References 189

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Éva Fodor is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.