In the 1950s, part-time work gradually became an element of labor policy to activate women to participate in the labor market that could be transferred from one country to another. Support of part-time employment in the Dutch labor market, however, was initially not endorsed as a solution to the problem of low female labor force participation but was the outcome of a more complex set of deliberations, in which the moral economy of employers’ organizations conflicted with broader demands for increased productivity. The article contrasts the initial concerns of Dutch employers about increasing women’s labor force participation with the country’s later international role in advocating part-time work for married women on an international scale. The Netherlands thereby serves as a case study of how employers’ organizations instrumentalized part-time employment for their own moral economy based in the breadwinner ideology.

20世纪50年代，非全日制工作逐渐成为劳动力政策的一个要素，以激活妇女参与劳动力市场，并可以从一个国家转移到另一个国家。然而，荷兰劳动力市场对非全日制就业的支持最初并没有被认为是女性劳动力参与率低问题的解决方案，而是一系列更复杂的审议的结果，其中雇主的道德经济组织与提高生产力的更广泛要求发生冲突。文章将荷兰雇主最初对提高女性劳动力参与率的担忧与该国后来在国际范围内倡导已婚女性从事兼职工作的国际作用进行了对比。