Restructuring Work and the Life Course.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (559 pages)
Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
In this multidisciplinary collection of essays, forty-eight social scientists from seven countries examine changes in the organization of work and their impact on people at various stages of the life course.