Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America

by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Catherine Hakim

This book provides the first comparative study of the long-term development of women's part-time work in Europe and the United States from 1950 onwards. The authors analyze a wealth of longitudinal and cross-sectional data on the work force, generating a powerful critique of the dominant theories that part-time work equalizes women's position vis vis full-time workers or leaves women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead, the study asserts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198280866
• ISBN13: 9780198280866
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"