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