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Author Ruggie, Mary

Title The State and Working Women : a Comparative Study of Britain and Sweden
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; 1. Women, Work, and the State: An Overview ; Introduction ; 4. Sweden: Equal Employment Opportunity; 7. Women, Workers, and State/Society Relations
Summary Mary Ruggie's controversial study of British and Swedish labor market, anti-discrimination, and child care programs argues that gender-based policy alone cannot substantially raise the economic status of women workers. Rather, policies for women must be developed within the context of more general economic and social policies Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preser
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Great Britain
Discrimination in employment -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Day care centers -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Women -- Employment -- Sweden
Discrimination in employment -- Government policy -- Sweden
Day care centers -- Government policy -- Sweden
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Day care centers -- Government policy
Discrimination in employment -- Government policy
Women -- Employment
Great Britain
Sweden
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400856732
1400856736