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Are we all working too hard? Women, men, and changing attitudes to paid employment
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Crompton, Rosemary and Lyonette, Clare (2007) Are we all working too hard? Women, men, and changing attitudes to paid employment. In: Park, Alison and Curtice, John and Thomson, Katarina and Phillips, Miranda and Johnson, Mark, (eds.) British social attitudes : the 23rd report. London: SAGE, pp. 55-67. ISBN 9781412934329
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Abstract
In Britain, the world of paid employment has undergone considerable change over the last twenty years. After the de-industrialisation of the 1980s, it was increasingly argued not only that economic growth (and thus high levels of employment) was unsustainable, but also that the nature of paid work had changed irrevocably (Handy, 1984). Jobs were increasingly characterised by apparent insecurities, deriving from managerial practices such as organisational ‘delayering’ (for example, removing supervisory and managerial positions) and ‘outsourcing’ (subcontracting catering, cleaning and other tasks once carried out ‘in-house’). It was suggested that self-employment would rise to meet the needs of outsourcing, as would non-permanent forms of employment such as fixed term contracts. Even by the year 2000, Beck was still describing ‘the Brazilianization of the West’ – that is, a massive shift towards casual, insecure employment – as virtually inevitable. In some contrast, more optimistic predictions argued that in wealthier societies (such ...
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor market -- Great Britain, Hours of labor , Work environment , Part-time employment , Deindustrialization | ||||
Publisher: | SAGE | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9781412934329 | ||||
Book Title: | British social attitudes : the 23rd report | ||||
Editor: | Park, Alison and Curtice, John and Thomson, Katarina and Phillips, Miranda and Johnson, Mark | ||||
Official Date: | 2007 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 283 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 55-67 | ||||
DOI: | 10.4135/9781849208680 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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