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Article: A critical disjuncture? the culmination of post-world war II socio-demographic and economic trends in the united states.(united states census)
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- Journal of Population Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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This essay examines the consequences of major social, demographic and economic trends in the United States since World War II. These include rising women's employment, the 'Baby Boom', the outlines of the so-called 'new' immigration, the increasing racial and ethnic diversity deriving from that immigration, the economic contexts in which recent US immigration has occurred, and recent technologically-induced features of global work flows that will condition immigration's future reception and effects. Women's wartime work experiences, together with their economic opportunities in the ensuing decades, boosted married women's autonomy and domestic leverage. Rising economic ...