Working And Caring Over The Twentieth Century

Author : J. Brannen,P. Moss,A. Mooney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230005716

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Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century by J. Brannen,P. Moss,A. Mooney Pdf

Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or 'beanpole families' are a potential resource for family support. Focusing on four-generation families and the two central careers of the life course - employment and care - Working and Caring Over the Twentieth Century explores this question. Based upon new research that employed biographical methods, it maps in detail from 1910 to the late 1990s the lives of men and women as great-grandparents, grandparents and parents. The book provides unique insights into processes of change and continuity in family lives and the ways in which different generations of men and women make sense of their lives.

Author : Julia Brannen,Peter Moss,Ann Mooney
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1403920591

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Working and Caring Over the Twentieth Century by Julia Brannen,Peter Moss,Ann Mooney Pdf

In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce & a declining welfare state, multi-generation families are a potential resource for family support. This volume explores this issue, focusing on the two central careers of the life course, employment & care.

Author : Richard K Vedder,Lowell E. Gallaway
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814788332

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Out of Work by Richard K Vedder,Lowell E. Gallaway Pdf

Argues the cause of unemployment may be the government itself Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.

Author : Mary S. Melcher
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816528462

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Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona by Mary S. Melcher Pdf

Mary Melcher's Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona provides a deep and diverse history of the dramatic changes in childbirth, birth control, infant mortality, and abortion over the course of the last century. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper accounts, government documents, letters, photos, and biographical collections, this fine-grained study of women's reproductive health places the voices of real women at the forefront of the narrative, providing a personal view into some of the most intense experiences of their lives.

Author : Mignon Duffy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813549606

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Making Care Count by Mignon Duffy Pdf

Use of historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the development of paid care work in the twentieth-century including health care, education and child care, and social services.

Author : Roger Cooter,John Pickstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000150902

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Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Roger Cooter,John Pickstone Pdf

During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations. The editors of Medicine in the Twentieth Century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences. Some concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.

Author : H. Bradley,G. Healy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230582101

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Ethnicity and Gender at Work by H. Bradley,G. Healy Pdf

Using an international approach, this book demonstrates the way that the intersection of gendered and ethnic identities operate at work and home. It provides an authoritative account of ethnicity and gender at work, and the theoretical underpinning explanations.

Author : María Magdalena Camou,Silvana Maubrigades,Rosemary Thorp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317130215

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Gender Inequalities and Development in Latin America During the Twentieth Century by María Magdalena Camou,Silvana Maubrigades,Rosemary Thorp Pdf

This book presents evidence of the evolution of the gender inequalities in Latin America during the twentieth century, using basic indicators of human development, namely education, health and the labour market. There are very few historical studies that centre on gender as the main analytical category in Latin America, so this book breaks new ground. Using case-studies from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, the authors show that there is evidence of a correlation between economic growth and the decrease in gender inequality, but this process is also not linear. Although the activity rate of women was high at the beginning of the twentieth century, female participation in the labour market diminished, until the 1970s, when it began to increase dramatically. Since the 1970s, fertility reduction and education improvements and worsening labour market conditions are associated to the steadily increase of women participation in the labour market. By gauging the extent to which gender gaps in the formation of human capital, access to resources, quality of life and opportunities may have operated as a restriction on women’s capabilities and on economic growth in the region, this book demonstrates that Latin America has lagged behind in terms of gender equality.

Author : Helen M. Sweet,with Rona Dougall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135911973

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Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain by Helen M. Sweet,with Rona Dougall Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service, and workload. A strong oral history component provides a unique insight into the professional images of district nursing and the complexities of inter- and intra-professional relationships as well as into the changing day-to-day working experiences of the district nurse at ‘grass-roots’ level. Use of oral history and records of individual nurses attempts to rectify the tendency of nursing history to view nurses as if they were a homogenous group of professionals, thereby recognizing the different experiences of nurses in different regions and environments. The book also considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies and of developments in drugs, materials, communications, and transport on the professional development of district nursing. The work addresses issues of gender relationships central to a nursing profession largely composed of women (throughout much of the period) working alongside a largely male-dominated medical profession.

Author : Barnard, Adam,Horner, Nigel,Wild, Jim
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335222148

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The Value Base Of Social Work And Social Care by Barnard, Adam,Horner, Nigel,Wild, Jim Pdf

This text focuses upon an array of key concepts historically associated with the activities of the 'helping professions' but including thematic explorations of poverty, inequality, user perspectives; and of the essential components of the helping relationship, such as empathy, compassion and conviction.

Author : Anna Triandafyllidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317112846

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Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe by Anna Triandafyllidou Pdf

With specific attention to irregular migrant workers - that is to say, those without legal permits to stay in the countries in which they work - this volume focuses on domestic work, presenting studies from ten European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Offering a comparative analysis of irregular migrants engaged in all kinds of domestic work, the authors explore questions relating to employment conditions, health issues and the family lives of migrants. The book examines the living and working conditions of irregular migrant domestic workers, their relations with employers, their access to basic rights such as sick leave, sick pay, and holiday pay, as well as access to health services. Close consideration is also given to the challenges for family life presented by workers' status as irregular migrants, with regard to their lives both in their countries of origin and with their employers. Through analyses of the often blurred distinction between legality and illegality, the notion of a ’career’ in domestic work and the policy responses of European nations to the growth of irregular migrant domestic work, this volume offers various conceptual developments in the study of migration and domestic work. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists with interests in migration, gender, the family and domestic work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044095336301

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Twentieth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monique Kremer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789053569757

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How Welfare States Care by Monique Kremer Pdf

Though women’s employment patterns in Europe have been changing drastically over several decades, the repercussions of this social revolution are just beginning to garner serious attention. Many scholars have presumed that diversity and change in women’s employment is based on the structures of welfare states and women’s responses to economic incentives and disincentives to join the workforce; How Welfare States Care provides in-depth analysis of women’s employment and childcare patterns, taxation, social security, and maternity leave provisions in order to show this logic does not hold. Combining economic, sociological, and psychological insights, Kremer demonstrates that care is embedded in welfare states and that European women are motivated by culturally and morally-shaped ideals of care that are embedded in welfare states—and less by economic reality.

Author : David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0253318254

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Dying for Work by David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz Pdf

This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century -- radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.

Author : Berit Brandth,Sigtona Halrynjo,Elin Kvande
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317508069

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Work–Family Dynamics by Berit Brandth,Sigtona Halrynjo,Elin Kvande Pdf

Work-life integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and in people’s everyday lives. This volume offers a new type of lens for understanding work-family reconciliation by studying how work-family dynamics are shaped, squeezed and developed between consistent or competing logics in different societies in Europe and the US. The three institutions of "state", "family" and "working life", and their under-explored primary logics of "regulation", "morality" and "economic competitiveness" are examined theoretically as well as empirically throughout the chapters, thus contributing to an understanding of the contemporary challenges within the field of work-family research that combines structure and culture. Particular attention is given to the ways in which the institutions are confronted with various moral norms of good parenthood or motherhood and ideals for family life. Likewise, the logic of policy regulation and gendered family moralities are challenged by the economic logic of working life, based on competition in favour of the most productive workers and organizations. Demonstrating different aspects of what is behind and between the logics of state regulation, morals and market, this innovative volume will appeal to students, teachers and researchers interested in areas such as family studies, welfare state studies, social policy studies, work life studies as well as and gender studies.