Working Difference - Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995

"eva Fodor's compelling analysis of gendered mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the workplaces of state-socialist Hungary and capitalist Austria provides a welcome set of comparative insights to the burgeoning literature on gender, states, and societies, and speaks to core questions in feminism and studies of inequality."--Ann Shola Orloff, coauthor, "States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States"

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

1. Three Generations of Women in Central Europe 1

2. Gender Regimes in East and West 17

3. From “K und K” to “Communism versus Capitalism”: The Social Worlds of Austria and Hungary 39

4. Exclusion versus Limited Inclusion 61

5. Mechanisms of Exclusion 76

6. Conditions of Inclusion: Examining State Policies in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1995 104

7. Difference at Work: A Case Study of Hungary
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8. Convergence in the Twenty-First Century?
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Appendix A. Data Sets, Samples, and Definition of Variables
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Appendix B. Chronology of Legislation Targeting or Affecting Women
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Notes 173

References 189

Index 201

About the author

Éva Fodor is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

Summary

Examines women's inclusion into and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book shows how women's access to power varied in degree and operated through different principles and mechanisms in accordance with the stratification systems of the respective countries.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Fodor, Eva Fodor, Éva Fodor, Fodor's
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2003
• EAN: 9780822330776
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3077-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Comparative and International; Comparative and International Working-Class History; Comparative and International Working-Class History; Comparative and International
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Österreich, Ungarn, Kulturwissenschaften