Research Catalog

Title

Professional work and marriage : an East-West comparison / Marilyn Rueschemeyer.

Author

Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, 1938-

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981.

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Details

Description

ix, 197 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Comparison of the impact of labour force participation on family life among professional workers in the German Democratic Republic, the USA and the USSR - describes attitudes toward single-career and dual career couples; examines the social implications of different forms of work organization and political systems on family quality of life; discusses educational opportunities, occupational aspirations, mental stress at work and its social implications, etc.; considers government policy towards married woman workers (married women). Bibliography, tables.

Subject

• Professions > United States > Case studies
• Professions > Europe, Eastern > Case studies
• Women in the professions > United States > Case studies
• Women in the professions > Europe, Eastern > Case studies
• Married people > Employment > United States > Case studies
• Married people > Employment > Europe, Eastern > Case studies
• Married people > Employment
• Professions
• Women in the professions
• labour force participation
• family
• professional worker
• attitude
• dual career couple
• social implication
• work organization
• political system
• quality of life
• educational opportunity
• occupational aspiration
• stress
• government policy
• women workers
• married women
• Professions > United States
• Professions > Europe, Eastern
• Women in the professions > United States
• Women in the professions > Europe, Eastern
• Married people > Employment > United States
• Married people > Employment > Europe, Eastern
• taux d'activité
• famille
• travailleur professionnel
• ménage à double carrière
• conséquences sociales
• organisation du travail
• régime politique
• qualité de la vie
• possibilités d'éducation
• ambition professionnelle
• politique gouvernementale
• travailleuses
• femmes mariées
• tasa de actividad de mano de obra
• familia
• trabajador profesional
• actitud
• pareja con doble carrera
• consecuencias sociales
• organización del trabajo
• régimen político
• calidad de la vida
• oportunidades de educación
• aspiración profesional
• estrés
• política gubernamental
• trabajadoras
• mujeres casadas
• Eastern Europe
• United States
• German Democratic Republic
• USA
• USSR
• République démocratique allemande
• Etats-Unis
• URSS
• República Democrática Alemana
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p.184-190.

ISBN

• 0312647824
• 9780312647827
• 0333300807
• 9780333300800

LCCN

80039959

OCLC

• ocm07007387
• 7007387
• SCSB-8943125

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library