Work-Family Dynamics -

Work-Family Dynamics

Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals
Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-86007-0 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Work-life integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and in people’s everyday lives. This volume offers a new type of lens for understanding work-family reconciliation by studying how work-family dynamics are shaped, squeezed and developed between consistent or competing logics in different societies in Europe and the US.

The three institutions of "state", "family" and "working life", and their under-explored primary logics of "regulation", "morality" and "economic competitiveness" are examined theoretically as well as empirically throughout the chapters, thus contributing to an understanding of the contemporary challenges within the field of work-family research that combines structure and culture. Particular attention is given to the ways in which the institutions are confronted with various moral norms of good parenthood or motherhood and ideals for family life. Likewise, the logic of policy regulation and gendered family moralities are challenged by the economic logic of working life, based on competition in favour of the most productive workers and organizations.

Demonstrating different aspects of what is behind and between the logics of state regulation, morals and market, this innovative volume will appeal to students, teachers and researchers interested in areas such as family studies, welfare state studies, social policy studies, work life studies as well as and gender studies.

Berit Brandth is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Sigtona Halrynjo (PhD Sociology) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway. Elin Kvande ( Dr.polit. Sociology ) is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Contents

List of figures and tables






Integrating work and family: Changing institutions and competing logics
Elin Kvande, Berit Brandth and Sigtona Halrynjo

Part 1 Current challenges of work-family dynamics – institutional differences




The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy: A view from the U.S.
Kathleen Gerson




Managing work-life tensions in the neo-liberal UK
Diane Perrons




Work and family cultures: Dynamics of family change in Southern Europe
Isabella Crespi and Almudena Moreno Mínguez




Fathers integrating work and childcare: Reconciling the logics?
Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande

Part 2 Gendered logics and strategies of work and parenting




When work meets childcare: The competing logics of mothering and gender equality
Kristine Warhuus Smeby




Making sense of motherhood and fatherhood: Competing moral discourses and logics of caring and work 'choices' in the UK
Tina Miller




Hidden rules and competing logics: Working fathers within organizations in Germany
Mechtild Oechsle and Sandra Beaufaÿs



Part 3 Competing logics intensified: Careers and elite professions




Long hours and the work devotion schema: The case of executive men in the United States
Mary Blair-Loy and Stacy J. Williams




Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context


Gunnhild Foss Heggem and Elin Kvande




Pregnancy as a career killer
Hege Børve




Exploring the career logic within the Nordic work-family model

Sigtona Halrynjo

List of contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-86007-7 / 1138860077
ISBN-13 978-1-138-86007-0 / 9781138860070
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