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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815521103321

Titolo

Employee relations [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 29, Number 4 What work? What life? What balance? : critical reflections on the work-life balance debate / / guest editors: Doris Ruth Eikhof, Chris Warhurst and Axel Haunschild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, : Emerald Group, 2007

ISBN

1-281-07877-8

9786611078775

1-84663-519-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 p.)

Collana

Employee relations ; ; v. 29, no. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

EikhofDoris Ruth

WarhurstChristopher

HaunschildAxel

Disciplina

306/.36

Soggetti

Industrial relations

Quality of work life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Introduction: What work? What life? What balance?; Work-life balance - the sources of the contemporary problem and the probable outcomes; Controlling working time in the ward and on the line; Work and life: can employee representation influence balance?; Work-life balance: contrasting managers and workers in an MNC; Employee availability for work and family: three Swedish case studies; Work and family balance through equal employment opportunity programmes and agreement making in Australia

Sommario/riassunto

The articulation of work and life, cast as work-life balance, has become a key feature of much current government, practitioner and academic debate. The main message of this debate is the need for "good work-life balance". However, the debate and subsequent policy are too often based on assumptions about work and life derived from blunt readings of empirical data or misconceptions about employee attitudes to work and life. What is required therefore is analysis that explores the back-



story to work-life balance debate as well as the operation of work-life balance policies. Compiling critical re