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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self- )Exploitation -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures, tables and box -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The flexibility paradox and contexts -- Introduction -- The contexts -- Contexts of the increase in flexible working -- Increase in female employment and demand for better work-life balance -- Developments in digital technologies -- Commuting, and office and travel costs -- COVID-19 -- Contexts of self-exploitation -- Always-on culture -- Insecurity -- Work-centred society |
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Passion -- The book -- Flexibility paradox -- Background -- Outline of the book -- How to read this book -- Quick word on methodologies -- The take-home message -- Notes -- 2 The demand for and trends in flexible working -- Introduction -- What is flexible working? -- Definitions -- Flexibility as an arrangement or an approach? -- The demand for and provisions of flexible working -- The demand for flexible working -- Government response to the demand for flexible working to date -- European Commission directive on work-life balance -- UK -- The Netherlands -- Italy -- Finland -- Australia |
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Korea -- Empirical data on the use and provision of flexible working -- Provision of flexitime across Europe11 -- Access to flexible working -- Has there been a growth in flexible working? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The dual nature of flexibility: family-friendly or performance-oriented logic? -- Introduction -- The dual nature of flexible working -- Flexible working as a family-friendly arrangement -- Flexible working as a high-performance management system -- Theories on the determinants of flexible working provision and access -- Principle of need/family-friendly demands |
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Principle of equity/expected performance outcome -- Higher status -- Bargaining power -- Structural factors -- Empirical data analysis results -- Provision of flexitime -- company-level analysis -- Access to flexitime/working time autonomy -- individual-level analysis -- Outside Europe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The outcomes of flexible working -- Introduction -- Summaries of existing studies -- Performance outcomes -- Workers' well-being -- Work-life balance -- Enhancing employment of mothers and carers -- Work-life balance satisfaction -- Empirical analysis results -- Data and variables |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 The flexibility paradox: why more freedom at work leads to more work -- Introduction -- Theories behind the flexibility paradox -- Gift exchange, enabled and imposed intensification -- Self-exploitation -- Organisational culture and self-exploitation -- Entreprenurialisation of self and careers -- Subjectification of self -- Manifestations of the paradox: passion at work as the basis for self-exploitation -- Passion -- Busyness as a badge of honour -- Passion paradox -- Millennial burnout -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The empirical evidence of the flexibility paradox |
| Summary |
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible working has become the norm for many workers. This volume examines flexible working using data from 30 European countries and drawing on studies conducted in Australia, the US and India |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 08, 2022) |
| Subject |
Flexible work arrangements.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Flexible work arrangements
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447354796 |
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1447354796 |
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9781447354819 |
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1447354818 |
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