The Pleasure of a Surplus Income

Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955-1969
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-179-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Studies in German History

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this specific form of work in West Germany and shows how it took root, in both norm and law, in factories, government authorities, and offices as well as within families and the lives of individual women. The author covers the period from the early 1950s, a time of optimism during the first postwar economic upswing, to 1969, the culmination of the legislative institutionalization of part-time work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oertzen, Christine Von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Paid Employment for Married Women? Contradictory Viewpoints in the 1950s

Chaper 2. Changing Public Opinion, 1959–1969

Chapter 3. New Rights for Married Women: The Legal Institutionalization of Part-Time Work

Chapter 4. Part-Time Employment Becomes Normal

Chapter 5. The Introduction of Part-Time Employment: Phases and Patterns of Expansion in Industry

Chapter 6. Part-Time Work in the Office

Chapter 7. Housewives on the Move: Life Models and Assertion Strategies

Chapter 8. Part-Time Employment in the Two Germanys: Common Ground, Separate Paths

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oertzen, Christine Von
Christine von Oertzen is a Research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Before joining the MPI in June 2005, she was a Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

Christine von Oertzen is a Research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Before joining the MPI in June 2005, she was a Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC