Minority Women and Economic Restructuring

The Case of Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2374946
AutoresAnnie Phizacklea (Department of Sociology University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen1
Número3
Páginas309-325
Fecha de publicación1987-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017087001003003
OpenAlexW2052377786
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

It is argued that capital in advanced industrial Western societies has pursued a number of crisis-induced and related strategies to maintain profitability: automation, relocation and flexibility. While each of these related strategies has major implications for women's work generally, this article focuses on the specific impact that they have had on minority women's employment in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. On the basis of comparative analyses it is concluded that the relative collapse of traditional job opportunities in manufacturing for minority women has resulted in an increasing proportion being pushed sideways into the manual sectors of service work and in the UK also into a burgeoning 'ethnic economy

Business · Capital (architecture · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economic restructuring · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Flexibility (engineering · Geography · Management · Political science · Profitability index · Relocation · Restructuring · Service (business · The Republic · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Finance