Gendered Jobs and Social Change

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-86021-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society

Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of women’s paid work in Britain since the Second World War and an invaluable and accessible text for undergraduate students, and teachers and researchers, in the areas of employment, gender, and class theory.

Four substantial case-study chapters, drawing upon original research material, give in-depth accounts of developments across the whole range of women’s employment, from the ‘post-feminist’ finance professional to unskilled workers in the hotel and catering industry. This empirical work is set within a context of discussion relating to current theoretical debates of the time concerning gender, occupational segregation, and class and stratification theory and research; it is then complemented by a review of the structure of women’s employment in other western countries. Besides making an original contribution to research and theory, it also provides an invaluable summary and critique of developments at the time within a series of important sociological debates.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crompton, Rosemary

Sanderson, Kay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.  1. Men’s Work; Women’s Work; Some Theoretical Issues  2. Occupational Segregation  3. Women’s Employment in Britain: The Postwar Context  4. Qualifications and Occupations: The Example of Pharmacy  5. Qualifications, Occupations and Organizations: The Example of Accountancy  6. Organizations and Their Labour Markets: The Building Society Industry  7. Women’s Work: Cooking and Serving  8. Conclusions and Comparisons.  Appendix: Women in Professional Occupations.  Bibliography.  Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rosemary Crompton (1942–2011) was a Sociologist and Professor at the University of Leicester and then at City University, London.  She specialised in issues of class and gender, and more particularly in the analysis of the complex relationships between the two, showing that the many inequalities in each category could not be explained separately. She was committed in her research to empirical fieldwork and to the use of international comparisons. She became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.

Dr Kay Sanderson. Since retirement, and following a peripatetic academic career with UEA, the Open University and the University of Warwick, Dr Sanderson has been Chair of Norfolk Federation of WEA (Workers Education Association) and is involved in promoting adult learning as part of  the Norwich Lifelong Learning organisation.