| Reviews |
| - 'It is a credit to Crompton that she is able to put forward a number of complex theoritical issues whilst maintaining a reasoned and balanced judgement./Ann Day/Labour History Review, Vol.64, No.2, Summer 1999.' -
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| Description | | - Wide-ranging coverage of the issues surrounding women and work in Britain today.
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There is no other book on the market which gives such a balanced view of the issues involved. There is no other book on this subject at this level
- Competitively priced
| The latest in the successful Oxford Modern Britain
series, Women and Work in Modern Britain
provides a highly accessible introduction to this important topic. Rosemary Crompton gives a full account of the recent changes in the structure of women's employment, incorporating a comprehensive review of the theoretical concepts and arguments developed to explain them.
Discussing the
pattern of women's paid employment from the standpoint of both constraint and individual choice, the author begins by examining the variety of explanations offered to understand the situation of women in work in twentieth-century Britain. In subsequent chapters she discusses the nature and extent of women's employment in Britain today; cross-national comparisons of the differential structuring of
women's employment; women as employees; and the impact on the lives of both women and men of the changing employment/family interface and its implications for the wider structure of inequality and social polarization in Britain.
Clearly and engagingly written, with useful chapter summaries highlighting key points and discussions, Women and Work in Modern Britain
will be essential
reading for students and teachers alike.
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Readership: First year undergraduates and 6th formers studying sociology; the informed general reader.
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
Explaining `women's work'
2.
The structure of women's employment in Britain today
3.
Cross-national comparisons
4.
Women's employment and the family
5.
Women as employees
6.
Discussion and conclusions
Notes, References, Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Rosemary Crompton, Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester
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