Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

book: Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

Edited by: Josef Ehmer and Carola Lentz

Volume 18 in the series Work in Global and Historical Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111147529

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This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

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Josef Ehmer, University of Vienna, Austria; Carola Lentz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Remembering Josef (Sepp) Ehmer (1948–2023) Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Work and the Life Course in a Global and Multidisciplinary Perspective: An Introduction Josef Ehmer and Carola Lentz Open Access Download PDF	1
The Puzzle of Flexibilization: Stability and Changes in Working Lives in (West) Germany, 1920s to 2015. Evidence from Quantitative Life-Course Research Karl Ulrich Mayer, Rolf Becker and Anette Fasang Open Access Download PDF	41
Life Courses, Career Paths, and the Search for Employment in Times of Change: Industrial Workers in Germany, France and Britain, 1970 to 2000 Lutz Raphael Open Access Download PDF	71
Tumbling Down the Standard Life Course: The Ice Age Generation of the Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Origins of Polarisation in Japan Yoko Tanaka Open Access Download PDF	95
When They Told Their Stories: Industrial Workers’ Life Courses in the People’s Republic of China Ju Li Open Access Download PDF	133
The Life Courses and Careers of Public Employees in Interwar Austria Therese Garstenauer Open Access Download PDF	153
Textile Work, Gender, and the Female Life Course in Europe and China since the Beginning of the “Great Divergence,” Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner Open Access Download PDF	179
Older Female Workers in the Global Apparel Industry in Bangladesh Lamia Karim Open Access Download PDF	203
The Changing Politics of Women’s Work and the Making of Extended Childcare Leave in State-Socialist Hungary, Europe, and Internationally: Shifting the Scene Susan Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	225
Family, Work, and Social Mobility: Perspectives from Ghana Carola Lentz Open Access Download PDF	259
The Linking of Vital Conjunctures: Negotiations over Girls’ Futures Erdmute Alber Open Access Download PDF	281
Mobile People Versus Static Institutions: National School Policies in the EU and the Life Course of Transnational Grandparents Neda Deneva Open Access Download PDF	297
Contingent Return: Moral Assessments of the Life Course in Transnational Cape Verde Heike Drotbohm Open Access Download PDF	319
Life and Labour on the Road: Mail Runners and Palanquin Bearers in Nineteenth-Century India Chitra Joshi Open Access Download PDF	339
Wage Labour as a Life Phase: Life-Cycle Service and Petty Commodity Production in Early Modern Europe Josef Ehmer Open Access Download PDF	359
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	389
Index Open Access Download PDF	393

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of social/labour history, anthropology, sociology, students
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 411
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
- Tables: 6
Keywords: Global history; labour; life course; modernity

eBook

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783111147529

Hardcover

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783111145907