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 1 - 10)
The father status and the father role have during last 100 years undergone dramatical changes. The article presents some contemporary theories explaining those changes and ilustrates them on the example of a qualitative study of fatherhood after marital separation.
The book presents the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomena 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 is dealing with 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. It analyses theoreticaly those phenomenons and reflects its prevalence in the Czech Republic.
The chapter is based on a qualitative study of professionals working from home using new technologies of communication. It reveals the positives and the negatives that this type of work brings for different people depending on their gender and family situation.
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 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.
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 Ukraine immigrants – mothers living in the CR. It analyses the barriers that these women encounter on the labour market in the Czech Republic and the ways they realise their motherhood.
Qualitative survey showed several ways, in which labor market influences decisions on transition to parenthood in current Czech society. Those ways are gender specific. Preferences and decision-making on transition to parenthood of 30-40 year-old men and women are embedded in internalized values as well as external structural barriers and opportunities.
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.
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