Professional Work and Marriage
An East-West Comparison
Published on 18. June 1986
IX, 197 pages
978-1-349-08332-9 (ISBN)
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Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT ©
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~ MARIL YN RUESCHEMEYER
- 1. THE PROBLEM STATED: AMBITIONS AND WORK PRESSURES, THEIR ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES IN CAPITALIST AND SOCIALIST SOCIETIES
- Professional work and the development of ambition in the United States
- The effects of work pressures and ambitions on personal life in the United States
- The comparison with Eastern European socialist societies
- Work in the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic
- 2. 'NO, MY WIFE DOESN'T WORK - SHE'S A HOUSEWIFE': AMERICAN SINGLE-CAREER FAMILIES
- Introduction
- The work situation
- Sources of tensions at work
- Background of the professionals
- The schooling of American professional men
- Effects of tensions on family relations
- the wives' perspective
- Effects of tensions on family relations
- the male professionals' perspective
- The effects of work pressures and tensions on friendships
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- 3. 'I AM A PROFESSIONAL, TOO' AMERICAN DUAL-CAREER FAMILIES
- Introduction
- Family background and the roots of occupational aspiration
- The school experiences of men and women in dual-career families
- The original 'contract'
- The situation at work
- The over-scheduled family
- The effects of work on the marital relationship
- The effects of work pressures on friendships
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- 4. DOES SOCIALISM MAKE A DIFFERENCE? DUAL-CAREER FAMILIES IN THE SOVIET UNION AND THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
- Introduction
- Occupational origins of the respondents
- Education in the Soviet Union and in the German Democratic Republic
- Supports in socialist countries for working men and women
- Role conceptions of professional men and women
- The world of work
- The effects of work pressures on personal relationships
- Appendix
- 5. CONCLUSION: PROFESSIONAL WORK AND PERSONAL LIFE IN CAPITALIST AND SOCIALIST SOCITIES
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
