Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
About the Book Series
This 18-volume collection contains titles originally published between 1932 and 1996. It examines the world of women and their relationship to work across a variety of professions, including those thought of as traditionally ‘male’. The majority of titles are from a sociological perspective, but the set also includes those from the fields of economics, history and psychology. This collection will be a great resource for those interested in women’s studies.
Women's Place in Industry and Home
1st Edition
By Sylvia Anthony
August 09, 2024
Originally published in 1932, this title is an attempt to outline the economic position of women at the time, to trace the origin of those features which most sharply differentiated Economic Woman from Economic Man, and to focus in a coherent view of the future the Will to Change which the present ...
Women's Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Alastair McAuley
August 09, 2024
Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of 1936 or 1977, had been realised in the USSR at the time. The main focus is on the nature and extent of economic ...
Women, Work and Family in Britain and Germany
1st Edition
Edited
By T. Scarlett Epstein, Kate Crehan, Annemarie Gerzer, Jurgen Sass
August 09, 2024
Many working women have to face a serious conflict between the demands of their work and the demands of family life. Changing perceptions about the role of women are making this conflict even more complicated. Innovative work patterns are needed to alleviate this conflict. Originally published in ...
Work, Women and the Labour Market
1st Edition
Edited
By Jackie West
August 09, 2024
Originally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women’s employment in contemporary British capitalism. For the first time it brings together concrete studies which show graphically how women’s unequal position at work ...
Workers' Dilemmas: Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation
1st Edition
By Margaret Grieco
August 09, 2024
Originally published in 1996, Workers’ Dilemmas analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is information which has largely been hidden ...
Working for Victory?: Images of Women in the First World War, 1914–18
1st Edition
By Diana Condell, Jean Liddiard
August 09, 2024
Women ‘kept the home fires burning’ while their men went off to war. This is the usual image of the part played by women in the First World War, reinforced through countless posters, government exhortations and even popular songs. It is very far from the truth. As this remarkable book shows, ...
Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work: 18 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
August 24, 2022
This 18-volume collection contains titles originally published between 1932 and 1996. It examines the world of women and their relationship to work across a variety of professions, including those thought of as traditionally ‘male’. The majority of titles are from a sociological perspective, but ...