Women and Work in Modern Britain

by Crompton, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780198780960
• ISBN10: 0198780966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The latest in the successful Oxford Modern Britain series, Women and Workin Modern Britain provides a highly accessible introduction to this importanttopic. Rosemary Crompton gives a full account of the recent changes in thestructure of women's employment, incorporating a comprehensive review of thetheoretical concepts and arguments developed to explain them.Discussing the pattern of women's paid employment from the standpoint of bothconstraint and individual choice, the author begins by examining the variety ofexplanations offered to understand the situation of women in work intwentieth-century Britain. In subsequent chapters she discusses the nature andextent of women's employment in Britain today; cross-national comparisons of thedifferential structuring of women's employment; women as employees; and theimpact on the lives of both women and men of the changing employment/familyinterface and its implications for the wider structure of inequality and socialpolarization in Britain.Clearly and engagingly written, with useful chapter summaries highlighting keypoints and discussions, Women and Work in Modern Britain will be essentialreading for students and teachers alike.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x	(1)
List of Tables	xi
Introduction	1	(5)
Chapter One Explaining `Women's Work'	6	(19)
Chapter Two The Structure of Women's Employment in Britain Today	25	(25)
Chapter Three Cross-National Comparisons	50	(24)
Chapter Four Women's Employment and the Family	74	(25)
Chapter Five Women as Employees	99	(25)
Chapter Six Discussion and Conclusions	124	(17)
Notes	141	(4)
References	145	(8)
Index	153