| Description |
xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Future of work series |
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Future of Work series.
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| Contents |
Work-life balance in the 21st century/ Diane M. Houston -- Gender and work-life flexibility in the labour market/ Alison L. Booth and Jeff Frank -- The costs of a career in minutes and morbidity/ Michael Rose -- Sex differences in work-life balance goals/ Catherine Hakim -- Working, caring and sharing: work-life dilemmas in early motherhood/ Diane M. Houston and Gillian Marks -- Part-time employment among women with preschool children: organisational cultures, personal careers and sense of entitlement/ Maria Sigala -- 'Daddy, I don't like these shifts you're working because I never see you': coping strategies for home and work/ Jeff Hyman, Dora Scholarios and Chris Baldry -- Men's conditions of employment and the division of childcare between parents/ Irene Bruegel and Anne Gray -- Gender, job insecurity and the work-life balance/ Nickie Charles and Emma James -- Workplace partnership and work-life balance: a local government case study/ Stephanie Tailby ...[et al.] -- Multiple burdens: problems of work-life balance for ethnic minority trade union activist women/Harriet Brdley, Geraldine Healey and Nupur Mukherjee -- Combining family and employment: evidence from Pakistani and Bangladeshi women/ Angela Dale -- Care workers and work-life balance: the example of domiciliary careworkers? Clare Ungerson and Sue Yeandle |
| Summary |
"Based on findings from the ESRC's Future of Work Programme, this book focuses on the way in which gender, ethnicity and caring responsibilities shape work participation in the UK and describes the reality of how we balance our working and private lives in twenty-first century Britain."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Flextime -- Great Britain.
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Work-life balance -- Great Britain.
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Work and family -- Great Britain.
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Work and family -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
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Personnel management -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Houston, Diane M.
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Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)
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| LC no. |
2004051400 |
| ISBN |
9781403920621 |
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1403920621 |
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