Linda Mcdowell

Working Lives (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118349250
• Artikelnr.: 38401405

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables viii
Series Editors' Preface x
Preface: Leaving Home and Looking for Work xi
Part One Migration and Mobilities 1
1 Leaving Home: Migration and Working Lives 3
2 Gendering Labour Geographies and Histories 19
3 The Transformation of Britain 51
Part Two Out to Work: Embodied Genealogies 69
4 Post-war Reconstruction, 1945-1951 71
5 Coming Home: The Heart of Empire, 1948-1968 95
6 Years of Struggle, 1968-1979 128
7 Privilege and Inequality, 1979-1997 157
8 Back to the Future: Diversity and Precarious Labour, 1997-2007 184
9 Full Circle, 1945-2007 213
References 232
Appendix: Post-war Legislation 253
Index 263

Rezensionen

'An insightful and well-researched study of post second world war women's migration into Britain, exploring the interplay between their changing self-understanding, patterns of work and gender identity. The unusual and original angle of analysis yields many a novel conclusion and makes the book indispensable.' -- Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster and House of Lords

'In this rich book, Linda McDowell writes an important history of the changing nature of work in Britain over the last 60 years through the experience and eyes of immigrant women. There are not many books that bring together the trials, hopes and achievements of various generations of working women from East Europe, the Caribbean and East Africa, and fewer still that rethink British labour market history on the basis of the evidence gathered. A very fine piece of scholarship.' -- Professor Ash Amin, University of Cambridge

"In what is a very refreshing contrast to many of the more recent accounts of immaterial labor, which tend to focus on the highly skilled and well-paid sectors of the labor market and, to a great extent, on an undifferentiated image of the postindustrial worker, McDowell foregrounds the actual laboring bodies of migrant women, marked as they are by gender, skin color, nationality, class, ethnicity, and other signs of difference." (Economic Geography, 1 January 2015)

"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 February 2014)

Review appeared in Times Higher Education - 10 October 2013
"McDowell provides intriguing, important insights into the female immigrant experience, drawing selectively on interviews with sections of this complex shifting population. It is too diverse an experience to survey comprehensively in a short book, but it whets my appetite for a fuller version that draws on all of the interviews she conducted." (Times Higher Education, 10 October 2013)