Working Lives - Work in Britain Since 1945

Informationen zum Autor Arthur McIvor is Professor of Social History and Co-Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Klappentext A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves. Zusammenfassung A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last 60 years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Employment Patterns and Inequalities 2. The Meanings of Work 3. A Man's World? 4. The Colour Bar 5. Bodies 6. Representation and Resistance 7. Loss Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Mcivor, Arthur J. McIvor, McIvor Arthur
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2013
• EAN: 9781403987679
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8767-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; B, History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History