Industrial Profiles and Industrial Mobility

Shirley Dex
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Shirley Dex: University of Keele

Chapter 5 in Women’s Occupational Mobility, 1987, pp 90-121 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Industries form the backbone structure of an economy and determine, to a large extent, the range of occupations on offer. There has been surprisingly little discussion of the role women’s employment has played and is playing in the industrial structure, in comparison with much more extensive consideration of women’s occupations. The changes in women’s employment which have occurred since the Second World War have been clearly linked to industrial changes in Britain. Women’s employment has increased in the growing services sector and many of their jobs have been part time. If we are interested in the relationships between the structure of opportunities in the economy and women’s employment experiences, we should not omit a consideration of the industrial categories of women’s work.

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; Occupational Mobility; Scientific Service; Service Profile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18572-6_5

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