Convergence, Persistence and Diversity in Male and Female Careers – Does Context Matter in an Era of Globalization?
Title | Convergence, Persistence and Diversity in Male and Female Careers – Does Context Matter in an Era of Globalization? PDF eBook |
Author | Daniela Grunow |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2006-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3847414623 |
Little comparative knowledge exists on how the radical transformations that constitute the late 20th century’s ‘era of globalization’ have affected gender relations and their particular structural manifestation on the labour market, thereby neglecting a core element of the changes and problems currently underway. This book analyses how converging tendencies in the life courses and employment careers of men and women interfere with developments of increasing diversity and instability, both within and between sexes, as economies move from ‘industrial’ to ‘global’. Using the shifting welfare regimes of West Germany and Denmark as illustrative evidence of how national context ‘genders’ the risks and chances associated with globalisation and increasing employment flexibility, this study provides a timely, comprehensive longitudinal analysis of the gendered career consequences of recent political and economic change.
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers
Title | Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Peter Blossfeld |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2006-06-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1781007497 |
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women's Careers assesses the effects of globalization on the life courses of women in thirteen countries across Europe and America in the second half of the 20th century. The book represents the first-ever longitudinal analysis of micro-level data from these OECD countries focusing exclusively on women's relationship to the labor market in a globalizing world. The contributors thoroughly examine women's employment entries, exits and job mobility and present evidence of women's increased labor market attachment and reduced employment quality in most of the countries studied. They also systematically consider the life course changes influenced by larger transformations in society and, in doing so, explicitly link the phenomena of globalization to individual women's lives in Europe and North America.
Family Diversity
Title | Family Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | Olaf Kapella |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2010-03-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3866497466 |
Family in all its aspects Familienbande International experts provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art of European family research and outline the multiple formations, structures and configurations of family in Europe. Four aspects are discussed in depth: family images, sex/gender roles, globalisation and family development processes. Influenced by globalisation, European countries experience processes which still have greatly varying consequences. Cultural differences, reflected in a range of family schemes and national family policies, are one reason for the continued existence of differences in the scope and speed of change processes. Quite generally, images and concepts of family have become more heterogeneous and flexible. The flip side of this coin is that family members are increasingly faced with the challenges of achieving a satisfactory work-life balance – a task aggravated by globalisation. We therefore need to ask how family policy can help families enjoy adequate freedom of action and latitude for their decision-making. To summarise: a read well worth the effort for all experts working in family research and family policy.
Social Change and Human Development
Title | Social Change and Human Development PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer K Silbereisen |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2010-04-28 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0857029363 |
Today′s world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development. Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments interplay with human development across the lifespan. Human Development and Social Change is a useful resource for students and researchers involved in all areas of human development, including developmental psychology, sociology and education.
Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe
Title | Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | H. Blossfeld |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2011-10-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230319882 |
Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.
Adult Learning in Modern Societies
Title | Adult Learning in Modern Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Peter Blossfeld |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2014-06-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1783475188 |
As industrial societies increasingly evolve into knowledge-based economies, the importance of education as a lifelong process is greater than ever. This comprehensive book provides a state-of-the-art analysis of adult learning across the world and with
Rising employment flexibility and young workers’ economic insecurity
Title | Rising employment flexibility and young workers’ economic insecurity PDF eBook |
Author | Dipl.-Soz. Ellen Ebralidze |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2011-11-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3863884078 |
How have the immediate school-to-work transition and the early career changed in different labour market entry regimes since the early 1980s? How do institutional frameworks differ with regard to insecurity perception? Ellen Ebralidze investigates these topics from a cross-national perspective while focusing on Denmark, the darling of flexicurity literature. The results show that in all the labour market entry regimes, the school-towork transition has become increasingly difficult, and flexible forms of work are more typical in the first job. Furthermore, the liberal institutional framework of the United States seems to produce a similarly low degree of job-loss worry among young people in their early career as the Danish paradigm.