Gender, Place and the Labour Market
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781351157643
Subjects: Women; Employment; Working mothers; Work and family; Sexual division of labor
Description: "Although research on the labour market has remained central to the development of work on gender in geography, there has been an absence of texts on the importance of space in relation to employment. This volume explores the geography of women's participation in the UK labour market and centres on the importance of work-home interdependencies and factors which both influence women's decision-making processes and contribute to the formation of their perceived societal role. The book draws on interviews with individual women about the influential factors in deciding whether or not they participate in the formal labour market. It highlights the importance of social and cultural factors in addition to the availability of jobs in the local economy in influencing labour market participation. It also compares the choices the Government claims to provide with the choices individual women feel they have when it comes to negotiating their everyday lives."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction: Women, Work and Home in the Twenty-first Century  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 2 Gendering the Labour Market  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 3 Women and the Labour Market: The Shifting National Context  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 4 The Uneven Development of Women's Participation in the Labour Market  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 5 Research Design and Methodology: Moving Beyond the National  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 6 Exploring the Interdependencies: Women and Work  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 7 Exploring the Interdependencies: Women and Home  -- Sarah Jenkins; title: chapter 8 Making Sense of Place -- Sarah Jenkins.