Competing Claims in Work and Family Life

By: Tanja van der Lippe (Editor), Pascale Peters (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2007

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Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. Many people feel torn between work and family not just because their households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, but also as job expectations and parenting standards have intensified. 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; the contributors thus apply a multi-level and multi-actor approach to the problem. They pay detailed attention to time use and time pressures, and 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 fully 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.

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'. . . this book is an interesting contribution to the theory and practice of a major concern for a more balanced working life and a less stress-related health problems, particularly in the context of a shrinking labour force in the coming decades and population ageing. It will be valuable to policy makers, employers, human resources managers, trade unions and labour market specialists.' -- Hedva Sarfati, Industrial Relations
'. . . this book presents a valuable contribution to existing literature. The fact that the different contributions are rather short has the advantage of making the reading process highly enjoyable.' -- Sile O'Dorchai, Transfer
'. . . this book, well-structured and written by highly-qualified contributors, is a valuable contribution to the better understanding of the variables which impact on the interplay between work and private life and successfully provides a medium through which students in sociology and human resource management will be able to chart the shifting boundaries of their respective disciplines.' -- Jeanne Fagnani, British Journal of Industrial Relations

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Business & Management Business Competition Management & Management Techniques Time Management Economics Labour Economics Sociology & Work & Labour Management of Specific Areas

Personnel & Human Resources Management

Finding time	p. 1
Trends in time use and time pressure
Time pressure and quality of life	p. 21
More work for mothers? : trends and gender differences in multitasking	p. 41
Odd working hours and time pressure	p. 57
Under pressure : time and time pressure in Flanders	p. 73
Workplace and household related causes
Trading off or having it all? : workers' preferences for work and family time	p. 93
Employees' preferences for longer or shorter working hours	p. 109
The puzzle of unpaid overtime : can the time greediness of post-fordist work he explained?	p. 125
Working time, client time and family time : accounting for time in the accountancy profession	p. 143
Labour supply : the effects of employer demands and household governance	p. 161
Organizational and household solutions to time pressure
Trading time and money : explaining employee participation and leave choices in a flexible benefit plan	p. 179
Household outsourcing : a transaction cost approach	p. 195
Time competition in home-based telework : a theoretical framework	p. 213
Access to home-based telework : a multi-level and multi-actor perspective	p. 233
Does telecommuting really save commute time? : time, distance, and speed evidence from State of California workers	p. 249
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