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Transforming gender and family relations : how active labour market policies shaped the dual earner model / Asa Lundqvist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lundqvist, Åsa, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Sweden.
- Women.
- Sex role in the work environment--Sweden.
- Sex role in the work environment.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book is about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewell to male breadwinning.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Activation policies and changing family relations
- 2. The politics of paid work
- 3. The activation project: mission, goals and visions
- 4. Activation through training
- 5. Activation through information and persuasion
- 6. The activation inspector
- 7. Activating women: aim, means and consequences
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78643-629-9
- OCLC:
- 1013182960
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