Competing Claims in Work and Family Life - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845427513 ISBN 13 : 9781845427511

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, many people feel torn between work and family. This book aims to deepen our understanding of a variety of conditions that influence the successes and difficulties experienced in attempting to equally accommodate both work and private lives.

The contributors argue that conditions which create competing claims on time can originate from the organization, from the household, or from both; a multi-level and multi-actor approach is thus applied to the problem. Paying detailed attention to time use and time pressures, the contributors focus not only on the causes of disturbed balances between work and care, but also on solutions to these competing claims. The conclusions reached provide policymakers and implementers with evidence that certain elements of the organization and the household can be seen as parameters that are susceptible to directed policy-based intervention.

This comprehensive, multinational and multi-disciplinary study encompasses sociology, economics, geography and urban science perspectives from across Europe, US, and Australia. It will prove essential reading for students of social scientific disciplines, including family and organizational sociology and economics, and for policymakers and researchers focusing on work-family issues.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University and Pascale Peters, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, the Netherlands

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845427513
• ISBN 13: 9781845427511
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Van Der Lippe Tanja, Peters Pascale
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible