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Author Brandth, Berit

Title Work-Family Dynamics : Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology
Routledge advances in sociology.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Integrating work and family: changing institutions and competing logics; Part I Current challenges of work-family dynamics: institutional differences; 2 The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy: a view from the US; 3 Managing work-life tensions in the neo-liberal UK; 4 Work and family cultures: dynamics of family change in southern Europe; 5 Fathers integrating work and childcare: reconciling the logics?
Part II Gendered logics and strategies of work and parenting6 When work meets childcare: the competing logics of mothering and gender equality; 7 Making sense of motherhood and fatherhood: competing moral discourses and logics of caring and work 'choices' in the UK; 8 Hidden rules and competing logics: working fathers within organizations in Germany; Part III Competing logics intensified: careers and elite professions; 9 Long hours and the work devotion schema: the case of executive men in the United States; 10 Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context
11 Pregnancy as a career killer12 Exploring the career logic within the Nordic work-family model; Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Halrynjo, Sigtona
Kvande, Elin
ISBN 9781317508069
1317508068