Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

by Josef Ehmer and Carola Lentz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111145905
• ISBN13: 9783111145907
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"