Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3111145905 ISBN 13: 9783111145907

Casa editrice: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

Riassunto

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. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Josef Ehmer, University of Vienna, Austria; Carola Lentz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3111145905
• ISBN 13: 9783111145907
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 423
• Redattore: Ehmer Josef, Lentz Carola
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