Gender divisions and working time in the new economy : changing patterns of work, care and public policy in Europe and North America / edited by Diane Perrons ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 3645561
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, c2006
- xvi, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781845420208
- 1845420209
- Series:
- Globalization and welfare.
- Summary:
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"Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with reference to working patterns and gender division in Northern and Western Europe and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART I SOCIAL AND SPATIAL DIVISIONS AND WORK-LIFE
- MANA3EMENT IN THE NEW ECONOMY 17
- 2 Work intensi ication in the UK 21
- Brendan Bur -hell
- 3 Employment in a 24/7 economy: challenges for the family 35
- Harriet B. Presser
- 4 Enterprising women: remaking gendered networks on
- Wall Street in the new economy 58
- Melissa Fisher
- PART II WORK, TIME AND THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE 75
- 5 The French 35-hour working law and the work-life balance
- of parents: friend or foe? 79
- Jeanne Fagn ni and Marie Thtrese Letablier
- 6 Economic cr sis and the sustainability of the dual-earner,
- dual-carer model 91
- Anita Nyber
- 7 Class, gender and work-life articulation 103
- Rosemary C ompton and Michaela Brockmann
- PART III WOR K, LIFE AND THE HOUSEHOLD 123
- 8 Mothers' wo k-life balance: individualized preferences or
- cultural cons ruction? 127
- Simon Duncan
- 9 Care politics for fathers in a flexible time culture 148
- Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande
- 10 Individualization and 'identity-risks' in dual-career households 162
- Irene Hardill and Joost van Loon
- PART IV WORK, TIME AND URBAN SERVICES 179
- 11 E-enabled active welfare: creating the context for work-life
- balance 183
- Sarah Walsh, Susan Baines and James Cornford
- 12 Local time policies in Europe 193
- Jean-Yves Boulin
- 13 Developing positive flexibility for employees: the British
- trade union approach 207
- Jo Morris and Jane Pillinger
- PART V EQUALITY POLICIES IN THE NEW ECONOMY 225
- 14 Promoting equality in the private and public sectors 229
- Teresa Rees
- 15 Equal opportunity and unwarranted pay differences: a case study
- of gender-related pay differences in a knowledge-based society 241
- Lena Gonlis, Ann Bergman and Kerstin Rosenberg
- 16 Conclusion: work, life and time in the new economy 259
- Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray
- and Kevin Ward.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 272-302.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Perrons, Diane
- Copyright:
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