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Berghahn Books The Pleasure of a Surplus Income Part-Time Work Gender Politics and Social Change in West Germany 1955-1969 2007 Edition by Christine von Oertzen
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 AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Paid Employment for Married Women? Contradictory Viewpoints in the 1950sChaper 2. Changing Public Opinion, 1959-1969Chapter 3. New Rights for Married Women: The Legal Institutionalization of Part-Time WorkChapter 4. Part-Time Employment Becomes NormalChapter 5. The Introduction of Part-Time Employment: Phases and Patterns of Expansion in IndustryChapter 6. Part-Time Work in the OfficeChapter 7. Housewives on the Move: Life Models and Assertion StrategiesChapter 8. Part-Time Employment in the Two Germanys: Common Ground, Separate PathsBibliographyIndex