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Working lives : gender, migration and employment in Britain, 1945-2007 / Linda McDowell.

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Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women's employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of l...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Main Author: McDowell, Linda, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Series:RGS-IBG book series.
Subjects:
Women foreign workers > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women immigrants > Employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women immigrants > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Women foreign workers.
Women immigrants > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1 leaving home: migration and working lives
  • Gendering labour geographies and histories
  • The transformation of Britain
  • Post-war reconstruction, 1945-1951
  • Coming home: the heart of empire, 1948-1968
  • Years of struggle, 1968-1979
  • Privilege and inequality, 1979-1997
  • Back to the future: diversity and precarious labour, 1997-2007
  • Full circle, 1945-2007.

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