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Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007
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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

Author Biography:

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at theUniversity of Oxford. She is a Fellow of St John s College,where she is the Director of the Research Centre, and a Fellow ofthe British Academy. Widely published and well-known as a feministethnographer of labour and employment, her books include CapitalCulture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwell, 1997),Gender, Identity and Place (1999), RedundantMasculinities? Employment Change and White Working-Class Youth(Blackwell, 2003), Hard Labour (2005) and Working Bodies:Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Release date NZ
July 19th, 2013
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
294
Dimensions
154x230x15
ISBN-13
9781444339185
Product ID
21025369

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