Life course, work, and labour in global history
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall g...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2023]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Work in global and historical perspective
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Work in global and historical perspective |
| Schlagworte: | Arbeit Lebenslauf Geschichte |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 411 Seiten) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Work and the life course in a global and multidisciplinary perspective : an introduction Josef Ehmer and Carola Lentz
- The puzzle of flexibilization : stability and changes in working lives in (West) Germany, 1920s to 2015 : evidence from quantitative life-course research Karl Ulrich Mayer, Rolf Becker, and Anette Fasang
- Life courses, career paths, and the search for employment in times of change : industrial workers in Germany, France and Britain, 1970 to 2000 Lutz Raphael
- Tumbling down the standard life course : the Ice Age generation of the turn of the twentieth century and the origins of polarisation in Japan Yoko Tanaka
- When they told their stories : industrial workers' life courses in the People's Republic of China Ju Li
- The life courses and careers of public employees in interwar Austria Therese Garstenauer
- Textile work, gender, and the female life course in Europe and China since the beginning of the "great divergence," eighteenth to early twentieth centuries Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner
- Older female workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh Lamia Karim
- The changing politics of women's work and the making of extended childcare leave in state-socialist Hungary, Europe, and internationally : shifting the scene Susan Zimmermann
- Family, work, and social mobility : perspectives from Ghana Carola Lentz
- The linking of vital conjunctures : negotiations over girls' futures Erdmute Alber
- Mobile people versus static institutions : national school policies in the EU and the life course of transnational grandparents Neda Deneva
- Contingent return : moral assessments of the life course in transnational Cape Verde Heike Drotbohm
- Life and labour on the road : mail runners and Palanquin bearers in nineteenth-century India Chitra Joshi
- Wage labour as a life phase : life-cycle service and petty commodity production in Early Modern Europe Josef Ehmer.