Bøger af Jackie West

Originally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women's employment in contemporary British capitalism. For the first time it brings together concrete studies which show graphically how women's unequal position at work is shaped by the capital-labour relation and by women's place as housewives and mothers.The book illuminates the differences and similarities in women's and men's experience in the labour market and as members of the working class. It is about how and why women come to be in jobs typically regarded as semi or unskilled, about the causes of low pay, and about women workers' consciousness as workers and as women. It looks at the role of trade unions in relation to women and to sexual divisions, and at how class and gender relations are woven together in the production process.The nine closely researched contributions examine the development of women's and men's work in clothing and other manufacturing industries, clerical work in local government, microelectronics in the office, the position of Asian and West Indian women in the labour market, women's role in the family and part-time work, and women's involvement and influence in trade unions.

Although the flames of life tried to consume me and take everything I loved away from me God had a plan. No one can prepare you for losing the person you once were and replacing it with the person God has predestined you to be. It was the flames of the fire that changed my life but it was the burning in my heart that has made me into the woman that I am today. Although I had several trials and tribulations along the way; God never allowed me to fully give up. The pain of my childhood tried to destroy me but God had another plan. I went through many season of loneliness, hurt and pain but God sustained me.

Violet Bellamy is surprised to find herself a ghost because, as a rational person, she doesn't believe in them. After a life of timid conformity, she now wants to complicate the lives of people with empty charm and too much self-belief.