Working Lives

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Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives ofmigrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decadesof in-depth research to explore the changing nature ofwomen's employment in post-war Britain. * A first-rate example of theoretically located empiricalanalysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain * Includes compelling case studies that combine historicaldocumentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accountsof women's working lives over decades * Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades ofin-depth research * Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities anddifferences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-warBritain * Features real-life accounts of women's under-reportedexperiences of migration

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Linda McDowell

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Anthropogeographie Gender & Politics Geographie Geographie der Bevölkerungsentwicklung u. Migration Geography Geography of Population & Migration Geschlechterfragen u. Politik Political Science Politikwissenschaft Sociology Sociology of Organizations & Work Soziologie Soziologie am Arbeitsplatz

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"A compelling and comprehensive analysis of how gender, ethnicity, and class intersect within the labor market. McDowell's feminist theoretical lens allows her to investigate and problematize the ways that migrant women are often marginalized and normalized as docile and apolitical. Furthermore, her careful and detailed use of migrant women's narratives brings great empirical depth to the book. Within studies of migration, labor, and gender, McDowell's book is an important contribution to the literature on international migration. It offers a detailed historical examination of migrant women in the United Kingdom and is a rich example of how a critical feminist approach can allow us to investigate the marginalization of migrants and normalization of gender issues." (The International Migration Review, Summer 2015) "It remains that Working Lives is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement and will remain for the foreseeable future a key text for anyone interested in the history of migrant women and migrants more generally in post-war Britain." (Oral History, 1 May 2015) "In what is a very refreshing contrast to many of the more recent accounts of immaterial labor, which tend to focus on the highly skilled and well-paid sectors of the labor market and, to a great extent, on an undifferentiated image of the postindustrial worker, McDowell foregrounds the actual laboring bodies of migrant women, marked as they are by gender, skin color, nationality, class, ethnicity, and other signs of difference." (Economic Geography, 1 January 2015) "Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 February 2014) Review appeared in Times Higher Education - 10 October 2013 "McDowell provides intriguing, important insights into the female immigrant experience, drawing selectively on interviews with sections of this complex shifting population. It is too diverse an experience to survey comprehensively in a short book, but it whets my appetite for a fuller version that draws on all of the interviews she conducted." (Times Higher Education, 10 October 2013) 'An insightful and well-researched study of post secondworld war women's migration into Britain, exploring theinterplay between their changing self-understanding, patterns ofwork and gender identity. The unusual and original angle ofanalysis yields many a novel conclusion and makes the bookindispensable.'--Bhikhu Parekh, University ofWestminster and House of Lords 'In this rich book, Linda McDowell writes an important historyof the changing nature of work in Britain over the last 60 yearsthrough the experience and eyes of immigrant women. There arenot many books that bring together the trials, hopes andachievements of various generations of working women from EastEurope, the Caribbean and East Africa, and fewer still that rethinkBritish labour market history on the basis of the evidencegathered. A very fine piece of scholarship.'--ProfessorAsh Amin, University of Cambridge
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