Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History.

• Superior document: Work in Global and Historical Perspective Series ; v.18
• Author: Ehmer, Josef.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lentz, Carola.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/München/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.; {copy}2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Remembering Josef (Sepp) Ehmer (1948-2023) -- Table of Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Work and the Life Course in a Global and Multidisciplinary Perspective: An Introduction -- The Puzzle of Flexibilization: Stability and Changes in Working Lives in (West) Germany, 1920s to 2015. Evidence from Quantitative Life-Course Research -- Life Courses, Career Paths, and the Search for Employment in Times of Change: Industrial Workers in Germany, France and Britain, 1970 to 2000 -- Tumbling Down the Standard Life Course: The Ice Age Generation of the Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Origins of Polarisation in Japan -- When They Told Their Stories: Industrial Workers' Life Courses in the People's Republic of China -- The Life Courses and Careers of Public Employees in Interwar Austria -- Textile Work, Gender, and the Female Life Course in Europe and China since the Beginning of the "Great Divergence," Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries -- Older Female Workers in the Global Apparel Industry in Bangladesh -- The Changing Politics of Women's Work and the Making of Extended Childcare Leave in State-Socialist Hungary, Europe, and Internationally: Shifting the Scene -- Family, Work, and Social Mobility: Perspectives from Ghana -- The Linking of Vital Conjunctures: Negotiations over Girls' Futures -- Mobile People Versus Static Institutions: National School Policies in the EU and the Life Course of Transnational Grandparents -- Contingent Return: Moral Assessments of the Life Course in Transnational Cape Verde -- Life and Labour on the Road: Mail Runners and Palanquin Bearers in Nineteenth-Century India -- Wage Labour as a Life Phase: Life-Cycle Service and Petty Commodity Production in Early Modern Europe -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.