The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, and social change in West Germany, 1955-1969
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The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, and social change in West Germany, 1955-1969
（Studies in German history, v. 6）
Berghahn Books, 2007
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The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, & social change in West Germany, 1955-1969
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index
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Description
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this specific form of work in West Germany and shows how it took root, in both norm and law, in factories, government authorities, and offices as well as within families and the lives of individual women. The author covers the period from the early 1950s, a time of optimism during the first postwar economic upswing, to 1969, the culmination of the legislative institutionalization of part-time work.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Paid Employment for Married Women? Contradictory Viewpoints in the 1950s
Chaper 2. Changing Public Opinion, 1959-1969
Chapter 3. New Rights for Married Women: The Legal Institutionalization of Part-Time Work
Chapter 4. Part-Time Employment Becomes Normal
Chapter 5. The Introduction of Part-Time Employment: Phases and Patterns of Expansion in Industry
Chapter 6. Part-Time Work in the Office
Chapter 7. Housewives on the Move: Life Models and Assertion Strategies
Chapter 8. Part-Time Employment in the Two Germanys: Common Ground, Separate Paths
Bibliography
Index
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