Working Lives Work in Britain since 1945 1st Edition by Arthur Mcivor ISBN 140398767X 978-1403987679
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ISBN 10: 140398767X
ISBN 13: 978-1403987679
Author: Arthur Mcivor
Table of contents:
1 Employment Patterns and Inequalities
The transformation of employment
Getting work and getting on: the role of social class
The gendering of the labour force
Race, ethnicity and the labour market
Disability and the labour market
First experiences: children in the labour market
Retirement
Increasing insecurity: flexible, part-time and non-standard work
2 The Meanings of Work
‘I work for the money’: work, wages and livelihood
‘La petite misere’: marginalization, degradation and alienation at work
Identification with and commitment to work
‘Death of work’? The meaning of work since 1980
Conclusion
3 A Man’s World?
Masculinities at work
Manly work: traditional industrial masculinities and the hegemonic ‘hard man’
Femininity, the household and work, 1945-80
Changing gender identities
Conclusion
4 The Colour Bar
White migrants
Black minority ethnic migrants
Challenging racial discrimination in employment
Conclusion
5 Bodies
Employment and the body
The body in the mid-twentieth century workplace, 1945-7
Inhaling death: asbestos and coal
Masculinity and risk-taking at work
Trade unions and the body
Dangerous trades
Responsibility and blame
Trends in occupational health and safety, 1950-2010
The Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974
Occupational disease ‘epidemics’
Disabled bodies and shattered lives
Occupational health in the post-Fordist workplace: the new epidemic of workplace stress
Conclusion
6 Representation and Resistance
Industrial relations, workplace power and the trade unions, 1945-79
Deregulation, power and resistance in the UK workplace since 1980
Conclusion
7 Loss
Measuring unemployment
Jobless in the era of ‘full employment’, 1945-75
The return to mass unemployment
The poverty of unemployment: financial impacts
Status and identity
Women and unemployment
Unemployment and health
Retirement
Conclusion
Conclusion
Working lives, 1945-1970s
The ‘end of work’? Continuity and change since
mid-twentieth century
Privileging the narrative voices of workers
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