Feminization of the Labor Force: Paradoxes and Promises

by Ceallaigh Reddy, Elisabeth Hagen, Jane Jenson

Book Overview

The rapid influx of women into the paid labor force has dramatically altered the North American and European economies in the postwar period. This edited volume compares the feminization of labor in seven industrialized countries--the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden--and examines the status of working women under a variety of governmental policies, economic systems, and labor conditions. The contributors compare the unemployment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195206266
• ISBN13: 9780195206265
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages