Work-Family Dynamics: Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals

ISBN-13: 9780367872625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Berit Brandth; Sigtona Halrynjo; Elin Kvande

Opis

This book offers a new theoretical lens for understanding work-family dynamics, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges within the field of work-family research. The book examines how work-family dynamics are shaped, squeezed and developed between working life demands, family ideals and family policies – and

Spis treści

Contents

List of figures and tables

1. 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












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







Kathleen Gerson









3. Managing work-life tensions in the neo-liberal UK







Diane Perrons









4. Work and family cultures: Dynamics of family change in Southern Europe







Isabella Crespi and Almudena Moreno Mínguez









5. Fathers integrating work and childcare: Reconciling the logics?







Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande








Part 2 Gendered logics and strategies of work and parenting









6. When work meets childcare: The competing logics of mothering and gender equality







Kristine Warhuus Smeby









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







Tina Miller









8. 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












9. Long hours and the work devotion schema: The case of executive men in the United States







Mary Blair-Loy and Stacy J. Williams









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    Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context








Gunnhild Foss Heggem and Elin Kvande









11. Pregnancy as a career killer







Hege Børve









12. Exploring the career logic within the Nordic work-family model

Sigtona Halrynjo

List of contributors

O autorze

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.