Restructuring work and the life course / edited by Victor W. Marshall ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Victor W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Sociological aspects.

Work.

Industrial sociology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ;Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Contents:

Preface: Resturcturing Work and the Life Course: Challenges for Comparative Research and Policy ix

1 Work and the Life Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective / Walter R. Heinz 3

Part 1 Education, Labour Market, and Transitions in the Working Life Course / Introduction by Walter R. Heinz 23

2 Youth, Transitions, and the New World of Work / Graham S. Lowe 29

3 The Dutch Labour Market since 1971: Trends in Overeducation and Displacement / Marco de Witte, Ronald Batenburg 45

4 The Transition from Vocational Training to Employment in Germany: Does Region Matter? / Hildegard Schaeper, Thomas Kuhn, Andreas Witzel 61

5 Restructuring Work, Restructuring Gender: The Movement of Women into Non-traditional Occupations in Canada / Karen D. Hughes 84

6 Contested Terrain: Women in German Research Organizations / Jutta Allmendinger, Stefan Fuchs, Janina von Stebut, Christine Wimbauer 107

7 Polarization of Working Time and Gender Differences: Reconciling Family and Work by Reducing Working Time of Men and Women / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 123

8 Balancing Employment and Family Lives: Changing Life-course Experiences of Men and Women in the European Union / Susan Yeandle 142

9 Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany / Reinhard Kreckel, Sabine Schenk 159

10 Unemployment and Its Consequences for Mental Health / William R. Avison 177

11 Family Turning-points and Career Transitions at Midlife / Deborah Carr, Jennifer Sheridan 201

Part 2 Later Life: Restructuring Work and the Transition from Employment to Retirement / Introduction by Victor W. Marshall, Anil Verma 229

12 From Officers to Gentlemen: Army Generals and the Passage to Retirement / James J. Dowd 233

13 Gender Differences in Transitions to Total-work Retirement / Leroy O. Stone, Andrew S. Harvey 258

14 Linking Technology, Work, and the Life Course: Findings from the NOVA Case Study / Donna C. Chan, Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall 270

15 Is There Life after Career Employment? Labour-market Experience of Early 'Retirees' / Gangaram Singh, Anil Verma 288

16 Downsizing 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 Parham 303

17 Generational and Life-course Patterns of Occupational Retrenchment and Retirement of South African Migrant Labourers / Robin L. Oakley 319

18 Changing Working Patterns and the Public-Private Mix in Old-age Security: The Example of Germany / Winfried Schmahl 332

19 Japan's Current Policy Focus on Longer Employment for Older People / Takeshi Kimura, Masato Oka 348

20 The Career Break as an Alternative to Early-exit Schemes / Peter Simoens, Jan Denys 360

21 Restructuring Work in an Aging America: What Role for Public Policy? / Sara E. Rix 375

Part 3 Biography and Social Structure: Stability and Change / Introduction by Helga Kruger 397

22 Social Change in Two Generations: Employment Patterns and Their Costs for Family Life / Helga Kruger 401

23 Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender / Phyllis Moen, Shin-Kap Han 424

24 Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field / Kathleen Gerson 446

25 Engineers and the Western Canadian Oil Industry: Work and Life Changes in a Boom-and-bust Decade / Gillian Ranson 462

26 Baby Boomers in Transition: Life-course Experiences of the 'Class of '73' / Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod 473

27 Becoming a Mother or a Worker: Structure and Agency in Young Adult Women's Accounts of Education, Training, Employment, and Partnership / Ian Procter 489

28 Returning to Work after Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Qualifications in Mothers' Return to Paid Employment / Jane Elliott, Angela Dale, Muriel Egerton 505

29 Reconstructing Life Courses: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Experiences / Dirk Hoerder 525.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802044581

0802082424

OCLC:

46620551