Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment

by Alice De Wolff, Marlea Clarke, Wayne Lewchuk, et al.

From the end of the Second World War to the early 1980s, the North American norm was that men had full-time jobs, earned a "family wage," and expected to stay with the same employer for life. In households with children, most women were unpaid caregivers. This situation began to change in the mid-1970s as two-earner households became commonplace, with women entering employment through temporary and part-time jobs. Since the 1980s, less permanent precarious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773538283
• ISBN13: 9780773538283
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"