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Work Less, Live More?
Critical Analysis of the Work-Life Boundary
Work Less, Live More?
Critical Analysis of the Work-Life Boundary
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Description
The boundary between work and life is today seen as a major point of tension. New forms of employment and changing locations of work have blurred the distinction between paid labour and private life.
Work Less, Live More? refocuses the debate from how we balance life and work to the increasingly ambiguous point where they meet. Leading scholars present international research to demonstrate the effects of this shift. Case studies include, amongst others, call centre workers, hairstylists and even professional athletes.
Authoritative yet accessible, Work Less, Live More? investigates dramatic changes at the heart of Human Resource Management, Sociology and Organisation Studies.
Key Features:
- Offers a critical understanding of new modes of work and how workers experience and manage the resulting tensions between work and life
- Rethinks work-life balance and the boundary between work and life internationally and across a range of occupations
- The only textbook to focus on changing patterns and definitions of the relationship between work and life
Table of Contents
Work-life Balance: Three Terms in search of a Definition; J.MacInnes
Job Spillover: How Parents' Jobs Effect their Kids; B.Pocock
The Time Bind and the Marketisation of Life; A.R.Hochschild
The Problem of the Boundary in Work-life Balance Studies: Theorising the Total Responsibility Burden; P.Ransome
Frustrated Ambitions: Working in the Knowledge Economy; J.Hyman& A.Marks
Getting the Job Done: The Impact of the Conception of Work on Work-life Balance; S.A.Ballegaard& A.B.Fangel
What makes the Home Boundary Porous? The Influence of Work Characteristics and Boundary Preferences on the Permeability of the Home Domain; R.De Man, J.de Bruijn& S.Groeneveld
Work Relations and the Multiple Dimensions of the Work-life Boundary; R.L.Cohen
How Workers cope with Flexible Times and Mobility at Work: Gender and Profession make a Difference; A.Henninger& U.Papouschek
Recreational use or Performance Enhancing? Drugs and Professional Sport; T.Khoshaba
Re-establishing Boundaries: A process of Legitimizing Work in Home-based Telework; C.Kylin& J.C.Karlsson.
Product details
| Published | 28 Apr 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 248 |
| ISBN | 9780230535602 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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