This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers and development economists. The motivations for procreation in rural communities of the...

In this paper, we study the transition to motherhood in the first co-residential union in the dual-earner context of state socialism, namely in Hungary and Poland between the late 1960s and the end of the 1980s. Our analyses are based on data extracted from the Polish and the Hungarian Fertility...

This work is intended as a guide to encourage mothers to confront the difficulties inherent in the life of a parent. Not infrequently, childbirth is associated with the uncertainty, related to some disturbances in the psychological and social life of young mothers. And all this is caused by a...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the information behaviours of socioeconomically disadvantaged young first-time mothers, an understudied and at-risk group (health and well-being). Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with 39 young mothers...

How do local labour market structures, in tandem with workforce dispositions and attitudes, influence the way multinational companies localise their standardised work and production systems? This article investigates the conflict-ridden factory regime of a lean automotive plant in provincial...

Abstract Der Beschäftigungsanstieg in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren basiert zu einem großen Anteil auf der Basis von sog. atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen, die häufig zugleich nur eine prekäre Erwerbsintegration ermöglichen. Insbesondere die Erwerbsmuster von Frauen weisen...