1st Edition

Gender, Place and the Labour Market

By Sarah Jenkins Copyright 2004
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Although research on the labour market has remained central to the development of work on gender in geography, there has been an absence of texts on the importance of space in relation to employment. This volume explores the geography of women's participation in the UK labour market and centres on the importance of work-home interdependencies and factors which both influence women's... Read more
Contents: Introduction: women, work and home in the 21st century; Gendering the labour market; Women and the labour market: the shifting national context; The uneven development of women's participation in the labour market; Research design and methodology: moving beyond the national; Exploring the interdependencies: women and work; Exploring the interdependencies: women and home; Making sense of place; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Sarah Jenkins