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Working Lives
ISBN/GTIN

Working Lives

Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007
BookHardcover
Ranking18677inGeowissenschaften
CHF102.00

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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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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4443-3919-2
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date19/07/2013
Pages296 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 238 mm, Thickness 18 mm
Weight508 g
Article no.15031137
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.14536698
Product groupGeowissenschaften
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Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of St John's College, where she is the Director of the Research Centre, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Widely published and well-known as a feminist ethnographer of labour and employment, her books include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwell, 1997), Gender, Identity and Place (1999), Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working-Class Youth (Blackwell, 2003), Hard Labour (2005) and Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

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