Working Lives : Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007.
Linda. McDowell
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc. , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (295 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Series: Editors' Preface -- Preface: Leaving Home and Looking for Work -- Part One: Migration and Mobilities -- 1. Leaving Home: Migration and Working Lives -- Introduction: Geographical Journeys -- Transforming Lives -- Ordinary Lives -- A Recent History: The Post-war Era -- Note -- 2. Gendering Labour Geographies and Histories -- Theoretical Locations -- Women and Work, Gender and Waged Employment -- Theorising Gender Divisions of Labour -- The Inferior `Other' -- Memories of Home: Diasporic Identities and Translation -- Memory, Migration and the Making of Self -- Dividing the Post-war Period -- 3. The Transformation of Britain -- Migrant Workers in the Post-war Decades -- The Numbers of Migrants in the UK -- The Changing Origins of In-migrants -- Managed Migration -- Note -- Part Two: Out to Work: Embodied Genealogies -- 4. Post-war Reconstruction, 1945-1951 -- Displaced Persons and Post-war Austerity -- Why Immigration was Needed: Post-war Labour Shortages in the UK -- State Constructions of Difference -- The Lives of Working Women -- Separate Lives -- Notes -- 5. Coming Home: The Heart of Empire, 1948-1968 -- Remembering the 1950s -- Never Had It So Good? -- Caring for the British -- Labour Shortages in the Health Service -- Recruitment and Nurse Training in the Post-war Decades -- Stereotypes and Discrimination in the Wards -- Irish Nurses: 'The fools, the flirts, the failures and the Irish' -- Women's Work: Natural Talents and Innate Skills -- Second-class Citizens -- Notes -- 6. Years of Struggle, 1968-1979 -- Restricting In-migration -- The End of Fordism and Industrial Unrest -- The New South Asian Minority -- Striking Women: The Dispute at Ford Dagenham -- The Grunwick Strike, 1976-1978.. - Conclusions: A New Era? -- Notes -- 7. Privilege and Inequality, 1979-1997 -- Introduction: Good Times? -- Social Change and Race Relations -- Women Bankers in the City of London -- Conclusions: Growing Inequality -- Note -- 8. Back to the Future: Diversity and Precarious Labour, 1997-2007 -- New Europeans -- New Employment Relations and New Forms of Work? -- Precarious Work -- Employment Agencies and Migrants -- Agency Workers at the Bottom End of the Labour Market -- Top-end Agency Employment: Working in the NHS -- Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Inequality -- Note -- 9. Full Circle, 1945-2007 -- Global Migration and Labour Rights -- At Home in the UK -- Going Home -- Cross-generational Connections -- The Diverse Population of the UK -- Conclusions: Migrant Women's Place as Workers, Mothers and Cosmopolitan Hybrids -- References -- Appendix: Post-war Legislation -- Changes in Immigration Legislation -- Other Recent Legislation that Improved Migrant Women's Lives -- Post-war Changes in Women's Lives in the UK -- Index.. - Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women's employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain Includes compelling case studies that combine historical documentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accounts of women's working lives over decades Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades of in-depth research Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-war Britain Features real-life accounts of women's under-reported experiences of migration.
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| Emner | Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects - History - 20th century.
immigranter kvinner storbritannia sosiale forhold historiekvinnelige arbeidstakere |
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| ISBN | 9781444339185
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