ISBN:
0191503126
,
9780191503122
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Work-life balance : the agency and capabilities gap
DDC:
306.3/6
Keywords:
Work-life balance
;
Work and family
;
Quality of life
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Quality of life
;
Work and family
;
Work-life balance
;
Work-Life-Balance
;
Familie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Across welfare societies policies and norms for work-life balance have emerged alongside rising expectations among working parents to be able to participate in employment and caregiving, and to have more time for family life and leisure. Yet despite this value placed upon work-life balance working parents face increasing work demands, as well as rising numbers of insecure and precarious jobs, both of which produce a deepening sense of economic uncertainty in everyday life. This volume considers not just what individuals do, but also their scope of alternatives to make other choices
Abstract:
Introduction : capabilities and agency for worklife balance-a multidimensional framework / Barbara Hobson -- Part I. The individual/household and the agency and capabilities gap : policy frameworks, norms, and work organizational cultures. The agency gap : policies, norms, and working time capabilities across welfare states / Susanne Fahlen -- A sense of entitlement? : Agency and capabilities in Sweden and hungary / Barbara Hobson, Susanne Fahlén, and Judit Takács -- Worklife balance in Japan : new policies, old practices / Mieko Takahashi, Saori Kamano, Tomoko Matsuda, Setsuko Onode, and Kyoko Yoshizumi -- Agency freedom for worklife balance in Germany and Spain / Sonja Drobnič and Margarita León -- Part II. The firm level and the agency and capabilities gap : policies, managers, and work organization. Workplace worklife balance support from a capabilities perspective / Laura den Dulk, Sandra Groeneveld, and Bram Peper -- Working time capabilities at the workplace : individual adjustment options between full-time and part-time working in European firms / Colette Fagan and Pierre Walthery -- Capabilities for worklife balance : managerial attitudes and employee practices in the Dutch, British, and Slovenian banking sector / Bram Peper, Laura den Dulk, Nevenka Černigoj Sadar, Suzan Lewis, Janet Smithson, and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes -- Capabilities for worklife balance in the context of increasing work intensity and precariousness in the service sector and the IT industry in a transitional economy / Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčecla and Nevenka Černigoj Sadar -- Conclusion / Barbara Hobson.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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