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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Berit Brandth, Sigtona Halrynjo, Elin Kvande Copyright 2017
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Contents



List of figures and tables







  1. Integrating work and family: Changing institutions and competing logics




    2. 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.




    3. Kathleen Gerson





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




    4. Diane Perrons





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




    5. Isabella Crespi and Almudena Moreno Mínguez





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




    6. 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




    7. Kristine Warhuus Smeby





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




    8. Tina Miller





  8. Hidden rules and competing logics: Working fathers within organizations in Germany




    9. 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




    10. Mary Blair-Loy and Stacy J. Williams







  10. Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context





    11. Gunnhild Foss Heggem and Elin Kvande





  11. Pregnancy as a career killer




    12. Hege Børve





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




Sigtona Halrynjo



List of contributors

Biography

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.

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