Facing Barriers: Palestinian Women in a Jewish-Dominated Labor Market

Author:   Vered Kraus (University of Haifa, Israel) ,  Yuval P. Yonay (University of Haifa, Israel)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   298
Publication Date:   22 March 2018
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Author:   Vered Kraus (University of Haifa, Israel) ,  Yuval P. Yonay (University of Haifa, Israel)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781316510476


ISBN 10:   1316510476
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   22 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Why Arab and Muslim women participate less in the labor market than other women?; 2. The subordinated citizens: Palestinian Israelis in historical, social, and economic contexts; 3. Changing demography: trends of educational attainment, marriage patterns, and fertility; 4. Slowly but steadily: Muslim women enter the labor market; 5. Limited success: Muslim women's standing in the labor market; 6. Far and isolated: Bedouin women in the Naqab; 7. Residents but not citizens: the annexed women of Jerusalem; 8. The 'favorite minority'? Druze women in the labor market; 9. The half-full glass: Christian women in the labor market; 10. Conclusion: the politics of employment in an ethnocracy.

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Vered Kraus is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa. She was previously a Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), Duke University, North Carolina, University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (ZUMA), Mannheim, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, and Nuffield College, Oxford. In the course of forty years, she has published numerous books and articles of labour market achievements and inequality between ethnic groups and genders, including Promises in the Promised Land (1991, with Robert William Hodge), and Secondary Breadwinners (2002). Yuval Yonay is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He was previously a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University, New Jersey, and a Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, University of California, Berkeley, and Technische Universität in Berlin. He has written multiple papers on economic knowledge production, sexuality, and Palestinian Jewish relations, as well as The Struggle over the Soul of Economics (1998) on the development of modern economics.

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