Description
This book provides the first comparative study of the long-term development of women's part-time work in Europe and the United States from 1950 onwards. The authors analyze a wealth of longitudinal and cross-sectional data on the work force, generating a powerful critique of the dominant theories that part-time work equalizes women's position vis a vis full-time workers or leaves women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead, the study asserts, women's increasing part-time employment in modern societies must be examined in the context of the sexual division of labor within the family."
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
354 pages
Language
English
Published
Nov 13, 1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0198280866
ISBN-13
9780198280866