McDowell Working Lives

Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-34925-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives ofmigrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decadesof in-depth research to explore the changing nature ofwomen's employment in post-war Britain.
* A first-rate example of theoretically located empiricalanalysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain
* Includes compelling case studies that combine historicaldocumentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accountsof women's working lives over decades
* Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades ofin-depth research
* Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities anddifferences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-warBritain
* Features real-life accounts of women's under-reportedexperiences of migration

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDowell, Linda

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables viii
Series Editors' Preface x
Preface: Leaving Home and Looking for Work xi
Part One Migration and Mobilities 1
1 Leaving Home: Migration and Working Lives 3
2 Gendering Labour Geographies and Histories 19
3 The Transformation of Britain 51
Part Two Out to Work: Embodied Genealogies 69
4 Post-war Reconstruction, 1945-1951 71
5 Coming Home: The Heart of Empire, 1948-1968 95
6 Years of Struggle, 1968-1979 128
7 Privilege and Inequality, 1979-1997 157
8 Back to the Future: Diversity and Precarious Labour,1997-2007 184
9 Full Circle, 1945-2007 213
References 232
Appendix: Post-war Legislation 253
Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at theUniversity of Oxford. She is a Fellow of St John's College,where she is the Director of the Research Centre, and a Fellow ofthe British Academy. Widely published and well-known as a feministethnographer of labour and employment, her books include CapitalCulture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwell, 1997),Gender, Identity and Place (1999), RedundantMasculinities? Employment Change and White Working-Class Youth(Blackwell, 2003), Hard Labour (2005) and Working Bodies:Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).