Categories in Context : : Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present / / ed. by Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Theresa Wobbe, Léa Renard, Olivier Giraud.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bender, Anne-Françoise,; Berrebi-Hoffmann, Isabelle,; Bussmann, Maike,; Giraud, Olivier,; Höroldt, Carolin,; Lallement, Michel,; Lechevalier, Arnaud,; Müller, Katja Karolin,; Reigné, Philippe,; Renard, Léa,; Ricciardi, Ferruccio,; Wobbe, Theresa,
• HerausgeberIn: Berrebi-Hoffmann, Isabelle,; Giraud, Olivier,; Renard, Léa,; Wobbe, Theresa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Despite the wealth of empirical research currently available on the interrelationships of gender and labor, we still know comparatively little about the forms of classification and categorization that have helped shape these social phenomena over time. Categories in Context seeks to enrich our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed by relevant actors. By focusing on specific developments in France and Germany through a transnational lens, this volume produces insights that can be applied to a wide variety of political, social, and historical contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Charts, Tables and Graphs -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Categories of Gender and Work in Context: Ways Towards a Research Agenda -- I Shifting Categories from a Comparative Relational Perspective -- 1 Making Sense of Women’s Labour in the Context of the French Family Business: From Domestic Labour to Recognized Work -- 2 The Grey Zones between Work and Non-work: Statistical and Social Placing of ‘Family Workers’ in Germany, 1880–2010 -- 3 Night Work for Women in France in the Last Two Decades before 2000: Regulations, Discourse and Gender Issues -- 4 ‘Women’s Factory Night Work’ in Germany: Changing Classification Schemes in Varying Environments, 1891–1994 -- 5 Women on Company Boards in France: French Republican Equality and Anti-discrimination Laws Conflicting Logics, 2006–13 -- 6 Women on Company Boards in Germany: A Result of Constancy and Change in Gendered Categorizations, 1980–2013 -- II Transnational Interplay of Categorization -- 7 Dynamics of Gendered Employment Regimes in France and Germany over the Last Two Decades: How Can They Be Explained? -- 8 ‘The Family’s Economic Charm’: Recent Reclassifications of Maternity, Employment and Family in German Policy from a Historical-Sociological Perspective, 1900–2010 -- 9 From Particular Protection to Universal Principles: Shifting Classifications of Employment Rights in the ILO, the EU and German Labour Law, 1919–88 -- 10 Negotiating the Boundaries of Equality at Work: Tensions about a Gendered Employment Norm in France and in the European Community, 1914–2014 -- Index