ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the work culture of primary teaching and at the characteristics of the labour market for these teachers in respect of the influence they have on women's careers. The characteristics of the labour market for primary teachers constitute factors at the intermediate level of analysis. The local primary teaching labour market has two distinct components which operate to control and manage the distribution of teaching posts. The first comprises the general characteristics of primary teaching as a job of work. The second component consists of the mechanisms and processes by means of which teachers are sorted out and distributed between different kinds of teaching and managerial posts. The teaching community and sponsorship processes of primary education will also serve different purposes in times of teacher shortage and teacher abundance.
