Women and recession / edited by Jill Rubery.

London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.

xii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women's employment in restructuring America : the changing experiences of women in three recessions / Jane Humphries -- Female labour reserves and the restructuring of employment in booms and slumps in France / Patricia P. Bouillaguet-Bernard and Annie Gauvin -- Sex-typing of occupations, the cycle and restructuring in Italy / Francesca Bettio -- Women's employment in declining Britain / Jill Rubery and Roger Tarling -- Women, the state and the family in the US : Reaganomics and the experience of women / Marilyn Power -- Women, the state and the family in France : contradictions of state policy for women's employment / Patricia Bouillaguet-Bernard and Annie Gauvin -- Women, the state and the family in Italy : problems of female participation in historical perspective / Francesca Bettio.

Women, the state and the family in Britain : Thatcher economics and the experience of women / Jill Walker -- Women and recession : a comparative perspective / Jill Rubery.