The Politics of Women & Work in the Soviet Union & the United States

The Politics of Women & Work in the Soviet Union & the United States
Author: Joel C. Moses
Publisher: Berkeley : Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1983
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Comparison of political aspects and socio-economic conditions determining employment policy response to the arrangement of working time for woman workers in the USA and USSR - compares labour legislation, management attitudes, trade union attitudes, public opinion, and obstacles to social reform in both countries, focussing on part time employment, reduced hours of work, flexible hours of work, work sharing, sex discrimination, etc. Graphs, references, statistical tables.

Unresolved Dilemmas

Unresolved Dilemmas
Author: Faisa Kauppinen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429778643

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Originally printed in 1997. Women are a considerable portion of the labour force. The majority of them also establish relationships and become mothers. Combining work and family has created considerable problems for women, domestic circumstances and main responsibility for housework and children still affect women, meaning they enter the labour market with one hand tied behind their back. How do women today cope with the dilemmas caused by their dual roles? This book takes a critical look at the concept of dual roles, and makes an assessment of women's locations in the workplace and at home, considering both continuities and change. The book concentrates on a wide variety of issues around work, family and their interrelationships. Unresolved dilemmas from different cross-cultural perspectives are considered, integrating the problems of modern women.

Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union

Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
Author: K. Katz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2001-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023059655X

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The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This is the first study to apply modern econometrics to survey-data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage-system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post-Soviet Russia.

Women in Soviet Society

Women in Soviet Society
Author: Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520028685

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"From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.

Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union

Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author: Linda Edmondson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1992-08-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521413886

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Until the late 1960s, most Western scholars studying the history, culture, social and political life and economy of Russia and the Soviet Union, paid scant attention to the participation and experience of women. The multifarious ways in which gender roles and perceptions of gender were influenced by and in turn influenced the heterogeneous cultures of the Soviet empire were largely ignored. However, this neglect has slowly been rectified and now the study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society. This volume demonstrates the originality and diversity of this recent research. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary nature of women's work, women and politics, women as soldiers, female prostitution, popular images of women and women's experience of perestroika.

Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR

Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Author: James R. Millar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521348904

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Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary daily life in the USSR. The survey involved interviewing thousands of recent emigrants from the USSR to the United States as a means of learning about their former day-to-day lives. Some aspects of this survey dealt with areas the Soviets themselves had never investigated, so the data were not, and indeed still are not, available even in unpublished Soviet sources. This study of a large volume of firsthand observations is extremely valuable to anyone interested in the inner workings and behavioural dynamics of the contemporary Soviet social system.

Gender Politics and Post-Communism

Gender Politics and Post-Communism
Author: Nanette Funk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429759002

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In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women’s experiences. Originally published in 1993, this title was the first collection of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars. They discuss gender politics during the often turbulent transition and crises of post-communism, offering vivid accounts and analyses of the conditions facing women in each country.

Women in Russia

Women in Russia
Author: Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1994-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780860916574

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Covers the history and politics of Russian women from the early years of the Soviet regime, through "glasnost" and into the post-Soviet era. It examines economic and professional inequalities, the role of women in the work-place and the political arena and the history of feminism in Russian.

Women's Work and Wages in the Soviet Union

Women's Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
Author: Alastair McAuley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000634248

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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 inequality in the Soviet Union; the subject has wider implications, not only for our understanding of the USSR but also for our perceptions of the way that labour markets operate in a more general setting. The book should be of interest to feminists and labour economists as well as those with a professional interest in the Soviet Union.