| Description |
xx, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a comparative perspective on part-time work / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Catherine Hakim -- Sociological perspective on part-time work / Catherine Hakim -- Part-time work in Central and Eastern European countries / Sonja Drobnic -- Full-time and part-time employment of women in Greece : trends and relationships with life-cycle events / Haris Symeonidou -- Part-time work in Italy / Tindara Addabbo -- Family cycle and the growth of part-time female employment in France : boon or doom? / Laurence Coutrot ... [et al.] -- Part-time work in West Germany / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Gotz Rohwer -- Female labour-market participation in the Netherlands : developments in the relationship between family cycle and employment / Paul de Graaf and Hedwig Vermeullen -- Part-time work among British women / Brendan J. Burchell, Angela Dale, and Heather Joshi -- Women's employment and part-time work in Denmark / Soren Leth-Sorensen and Gotz Rohwer -- Managing work and children : part-time work and the family cycle of Swedish women / Marianne Sundstrom -- Part-time work in the United States of America / Sonja Drobnic and Immo Wittig -- Women's part-time employment and the family cycle : a cross-national comparison / Hans-Peter Blossfeld. |
| Subject |
Work and family -- Europe.
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Work and family.
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Women -- Employment -- Europe.
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Women -- Employment.
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Part-time employment -- Europe.
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Part-time employment.
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Sexual division of labor -- Europe.
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Sexual division of labor.
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| Added Author |
Blossfeld, Hans-Peter.
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Hakim, Catherine.
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| ISBN |
0198280866 (hc) |
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