Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PREFACE. Restructuring Work and the Life Course: Challenges for Comparative Research and Policy ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. 1. Work and the Life Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective 1
6. PART ONE. Education, Labour Market, and Transitions in the Working Life Course
7. Introduction 23
8. 2. Youth, Transitions, and the New World of Work 29
9. 3. The Dutch Labour Market since 1971: Trends in Overeducation and Displacement 45
10. 4. The Transition from Vocational Training to Employment in Germany: Does Region Matter? 61
11. 5. Restructuring Work, Restructuring Gender: The Movement of Women into Non-traditional Occupations in Canada 84
12. 6. Contested Terrain: Women in German Research Organizations 107
13. 7. Polarization of Working Time and Gender Differences: Reconciling Family and Work by Reducing Working Time of Men and Women 123
14. 8. Balancing Employment and Family Lives: Changing Life-course Experiences of Men and Women in the European Union 142
15. 9. Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany 159
16. 10. Unemployment and Its Consequences for Mental Health 177
17. 11. Family Turning-points and Career Transitions at Midlife 201
18. PART TWO. Later Life: Restructuring Work and the Transition from Employment to Retirement
19. Introduction 229
20. 12. From Officers to Gentlemen: Army Generals and the Passage to Retirement 233
21. 13. Gender Differences in Transitions to Total-work Retirement 258
22. 14. Linking Technology, Work, and the Life Course: Findings from the NOVA Case Study 270
23. 15. Is There Life after Career Employment? Labour-market Experience of Early 'Retirees' 288
24. 16. Downsizing and the Life-course Consequences of Job Loss: The Effect of Age and Gender on Employment and Income Security 303
25. 17. Generational and Life-course Patterns of Occupational Retrenchment and Retirement of South African Migrant Labourers 319
26. 18. Changing Working Patterns and the Public-Private Mix in Old-age Security: The Example of Germany 332
27. 19. Japan's Current Policy Focus on Longer Employment for Older People 348
28. 20. The Career Break as an Alternative to Early-exit Schemes 360
29. 21. Restructuring Work in an Aging America: What Role for Public Policy? 375
30. PART THREE. Biography and Social Structure: Stability and Change
31. Introduction 397
32. 22. Social Change in Two Generations: Employment Patterns and Their Costs for Family Life 401
33. 23. Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender 424
34. 24. Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field 446
35. 25. Engineers and the Western Canadian Oil Industry: Work and Life Changes in a Boom-and-bust Decade 462
36. 26. Baby Boomers in Transition: Life-course Experiences of the 'Class of '73' 473
37. 27. Becoming a Mother or a Worker: Structure and Agency in Young Adult Women's Accounts of Education, Training, Employment, and Partnership 489
38. 28. Returning to Work after Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Qualifications in Mothers' Return to Paid Employment 505
39. 29. Reconstructing Life Courses: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Experiences 525
40. CONTRIBUTORS 540