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...