EAN: 9783111145907

LIFE COURSE WORK AND LABOUR IN GLOBAL HISTORY G...

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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