Households, Work and Economic Change: A Comparative Institutional Perspective
Young men choosing a traditional working career 189 Young women making modern choices 191 The struggles of young men versus the success of young women 192 CONCLUSIONS Changing economies, changing households 195 Jane Wheelock and Age Mariussen Summing up 195 Institutional comparisons: empirical analy...
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New York, NY
Springer US
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Recent Economic Thought
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Institutional transformation
- Household, work and gender in transformation
- Games and habits
- The institutional approach and embedding change
- Households, work and economic change
- I The Significance of the Household in its Macro Context
- 1 Perspectives on the household in a changing economy
- 2 Behind the lace curtains
- 3 Social security, employment and the household
- II Economic Restructuring, Labour Market Change and the Household
- 4 British market-led restructuring: a case study of Wearside
- 5 Corporatist restructuring: a Scandinavian case study
- Corporatist and market-led restructuring compared
- III Changing Lives And Livelihoods
- Section A: Household responses to industrial change and unemployment
- 6 The family and the social division of labour during industrial restructuring
- 7 Gender responses to male unemployment; or, is Andy Capp dead?
- 8 Reflecting flexibility: from the security of regular employment to coping with casual work
- SECTION B: Changes in family and household based production
- 9 ‘Nationalisation’ of rural households? New teams for old tasks in agricultural households
- 10 Economic restructuring, environmental consciousness and farm family succession in Britain
- 11 Survival and flexibility in the urban small business household
- Section C: Shifting youth transitions and identities
- 12 From shipyards to nightclubs: the restructuring of young ‘Geordie’ work, home and consumption identities
- 13 Marginalised young men and successful young women: young people entering adulthood
- Conclusions Changing economies, changing households