Origins of the Modern Career

Publication Date	July 2004
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing
Product Type	Book
Pages	356
ISBN Number	9780754634966
Product Code	ASH00096

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Summary

This book originates from an international research program that is reassessing when and why modern careers emerged. With fifteen essays this volume brings together some of the most important results of this new field of research. Based upon the innovative use of micro-level historical sources, the contributions by economic and social historians reveal the emergence of identifiable career paths in a wide range of occupational settings in Europe and the Americas over the period 1800 to the end of World War II. They highlight the economic and social forces that shaped the creation of both formal and informal career paths and led to their diffusion throughout the workforces of most developed economies by the early 1950s.

Content

An Introduction to the Study of Careers and their History: The history of the modern career: an introduction, John Brown, Marco H.D
van Leeuwen and David Mitch
An economic perspective on career formation, Laura J
Owen
The use of event-history-analysis in career research, Ineke Maas
The Creation of Formal and Informal Structures: Constructing the modern career, 1840-1940, Andrew Miles and Mike Savage
Job stability and career opportunities in the work-life history of policemen in Victorian and Edwardian England, Haia Shpayer-Makov
Trade unions and employment stability at the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1903-1929, Mary MacKinnon
Career making at Pullman: employment stability and job mobility for railroad repair shop workers, 1915-1970, Susan Eleanor Hirsch and Janice L
Reiff
Skilled work and labour careers in the Argentine printing industry,1880-1930, Mara Silvia Badoza
The Influence of Gender: Small business, self employment and women's work-life choices in nineteenth century London, Alison C
Kay
The careers of female graduates of Cambridge University, 1920s-1970s, Pat Thane
The Influence of Industrialization and Economic Modernization: Occupational careers of the total male labour force during industrialization: the example of nineteenth-century Sweden, Ineke Maas and Marco H.D
van Leeuwen
Working class careers: on-the-job experience and career formation in Munich, 1895-1910, John C
Brown and Gerhard Neumeier
Agricultural labour as a career: Norfolk farm workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, David Mitch
Factory work and arrangiarsi alla canesca
Professional careers of the Saffat's steelworkers from 1900 to the 1929 crisis, Paolo Raspadori
Career patterns in the British chemical profession during the twentieth century, Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn K
Roberts
Index.