Ehmer, Josef
(ed.)
Lentz, Carola
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 18
Número de páginas: 423 págs.
Fecha de edición: 18-09-2023
EAN: 9783111145907
ISBN: 978-3-11-114590-7
Precio (sin IVA): 27,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 28,55 €
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making.