Restructuring Work and the Life Course
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- ISBN: 9781442679290
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (512 p.)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2001
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General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE. Restructuring Work and the Life Course: Challenges for Comparative Research and Policy -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Work and the Life Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective -- PART ONE. Education, Labour Market, and Transitions in the Working Life Course -- Introduction -- 2. Youth, Transitions, and the New World of Work -- 3. The Dutch Labour Market since 1971: Trends in Overeducation and Displacement -- 4. The Transition from Vocational Training to Employment in Germany: Does Region Matter? -- 5. Restructuring Work, Restructuring Gender: The Movement of Women into Non-traditional Occupations in Canada -- 6. Contested Terrain: Women in German Research Organizations -- 7. Polarization of Working Time and Gender Differences: Reconciling Family and Work by Reducing Working Time of Men and Women -- 8. Balancing Employment and Family Lives: Changing Life-course Experiences of Men and Women in the European Union -- 9. Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany -- 10. Unemployment and Its Consequences for Mental Health -- 11. Family Turning-points and Career Transitions at Midlife -- PART TWO. Later Life: Restructuring Work and the Transition from Employment to Retirement -- Introduction -- 12. From Officers to Gentlemen: Army Generals and the Passage to Retirement -- 13. Gender Differences in Transitions to Total-work Retirement -- 14. Linking Technology, Work, and the Life Course: Findings from the NOVA Case Study -- 15. Is There Life after Career Employment? Labour-market Experience of Early 'Retirees' -- 16. Downsizing and the Life-course Consequences of Job Loss: The Effect of Age and Gender on Employment and Income Security -- 17. Generational and Life-course Patterns of Occupational Retrenchment and Retirement of South African Migrant Labourers -- 18. Changing Working Patterns and the Public-Private Mix in Old-age Security: The Example of Germany -- 19. Japan's Current Policy Focus on Longer Employment for Older People -- 20. The Career Break as an Alternative to Early-exit Schemes -- 21. Restructuring Work in an Aging America: What Role for Public Policy? -- PART THREE. Biography and Social Structure: Stability and Change -- Introduction -- 22. Social Change in Two Generations: Employment Patterns and Their Costs for Family Life -- 23. Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender -- 24. Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field -- 25. Engineers and the Western Canadian Oil Industry: Work and Life Changes in a Boom-and-bust Decade -- 26. Baby Boomers in Transition: Life-course Experiences of the 'Class of '73' -- 27. Becoming a Mother or a Worker: Structure and Agency in Young Adult Women's Accounts of Education, Training, Employment, and Partnership -- 28. Returning to Work after Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Qualifications in Mothers' Return to Paid Employment -- 29. Reconstructing Life Courses: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Experiences -- CONTRIBUTORS |
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Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in print. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) |
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Subject: | Multi-User. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Work -- Sociological aspects Industrial sociology |