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Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History / /

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 g...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Alber, Erdmute (Contributor), Becker, Rolf (Contributor), Deneva, Neda (Contributor), Drotbohm, Heike (Contributor), Ehmer, Josef (Contributor, Editor), Fasang, Anette (Contributor), Garstenauer, Therese (Contributor), Joshi, Chitra (Contributor), Karim, Lamia (Contributor), Lentz, Carola (Contributor, Editor), Li, Ju (Contributor), Mayer, Karl Ulrich (Contributor), Maynes, Mary Jo (Contributor), Raphael, Lutz (Contributor), Tanaka, Yoko (Contributor), Waltner, Ann (Contributor), Zimmermann, Susan (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: München ; Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]
Series:Work in Global and Historical Perspective , 18
Subjects:
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Arbeit.
Globalgeschichte.
Lebenslauf.
Moderne .
Global history.
labour.
life course.
modernity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 411 pages).
ISBN:9783111147529
3111147525
ISSN:2509-8861 ; ;