The objective of the project is to identify the main changes in the labour market and to study their context and impact on the organisation of private life among Czech people. The project focuses on the changing forms of partner and family cohabitation, upbringing, and the plurality of life strategies and lifestyles. It analyses the interaction between the work and domestic spheres in Czech society, where they overlap, and how they influence one another. Using large-scale qualitative research and ten qualitative probes focusing on the specific groups and segments of society indicative of the trends and directions of social development the project aims to contribute to explaining the interaction between changes in the labour market and the organisation of private life among the Czech population, especially changes and the development of new forms of private, family and partner life among individual groups of the population, and to evaluating people’s life perspectives, strategies and satisfaction.
Project publications (total 40, displaying 31 - 40)
The chapter is based on a qualitative study of lone working mothers and on quantitative data from representative survey Changes 2005. It analyses the barriers that lone mothers encounter on the labour market in the Czech Republic.
The chapter is based on a qualitative study of men in managerial positions and on quantitative data from representative survey Changes 2005. Instead of being a typical exemple of individualised living modus as we ecpected, men managers represent a position in-between the feudal and the modern worls. In order to be able to perform their occupation they need a person who will offfer them the full home service and will minimalise her participation in the public sphere.
The chapter offers an overview of different approaches to the problem of harmonization of work and family, going from the U. Beck´s theory of individualization of the society to contemporary feminist theories.
In the 90´s, marriage rate dropped in the Czech Republic. Based on representative surveys of Czech population from 2005, we analyze reasons behind such behaviour and test Hoffmann-Nowotny’s hypothesis claiming that low first marriage rate is driven by low fertility rate. Whenever young people start making plans on a family, there tends to be a marriage plan. Where the idea of a family is distant to them, marriage seems unattractive. Unmarried parents are the only exception.
This Article is a review of the book of Ulrich Beck and Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim „The Normal Chaos of Love“ published in 1995 by Cambridge Polity Press.
In this chapter the authors focus on the integration of foreigners into so-called ‘core’ institutions, which determine a migrant’s socioeconomic status, opportunities, and available resources. Special attention is given to the access to the social security system, to the health care system, to the education system, and last but not least to the labour market.
The chapter is resuming the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomenons that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic.
The chapter deals with the given profession which is characterized by forced high spatial and temporal flexibilities of working within the meaning of the combination of work from home and visits clients in asocial time.
This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.
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