Women and the labour market
İÇİNDEKİLERContentsList of tables and figures Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1 Women and training in a changing labour market Policies for change and changing policies Recurrent themes Conclusion 2 The reproduction of gender segregation Women in the workforce in the post-war period Theoretical approaches 3 Schoolgirls' occupational 'choices' Choosing options Determinants of choice Conclusion 4 Women returners' training 'choices' Returner-centred training: two case studies Women returners' training needs and training provision Re-entry to training: problems and processes Conclusion 5 The feminisation of trade unions? Women and trade-union membership Women in a white-collar union - NALGO Women in a blue-collar union - USDAW Barriers to women's participation Branch meetings: locus of trade-union democracy? Conclusion: feminisation and trade-union democracy viii Women and the labour market 6 Demographic change and positive action measures Positive action Employers' responses to the demographic challenge The family-friendly firm Training strategies Organisational change Conclusion: positive action or human resource strategies? 7 The new information technologies and desegregation What are the new technologies? The development of new technologies in the office New information technologies, new skills and gender segregation Training and new technologies in the United Kingdom Training and new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany Training strategies Recruitment strategies Work organisation Conclusion 8 Women and the enterprise culture Fostering an enterprise culture His family, her family: obscuring and obstructing women's enterprise Measuring women's entrepreneurialism The 'productive economy' in Australia Social justice and targeting Conclusion 9 Conclusion Notes References Name index Subject index NOTLARISBN-0-415-03802-2(pbk) |
