Work and family in the eWork era / Kevin Cullen ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cullen, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work and family.

Telecommuting.

Physical Description:

vii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press ; Tokyo : Ohmsha, [2003]

Contents:

1.1 About the FAMILIES project 1

Chapter 2. Trends and Issues for Work and Family Life

2.1 New work forms 5

2.1.1 Part-time work 5

2.1.2 Change in company structures 6

2.1.3 Change in location of work 6

2.1.4 Type of contract 6

2.1.5 Self employment 6

2.1.6 Retirement age 7

2.2 Families and their structure 7

2.3 Technology and new forms of work 9

2.3.1 Types of eWork 9

2.4 Families and new forms of work 11

2.4.1 Work intensification 11

2.4.2 Work-life balance 11

2.4.3 Teleworking as a means of reconciling work and family 12

2.4.4 Gender differences in relation to paid and unpaid work 12

2.4.5 Gender and telework 13

2.4.6 Gender and motivation to telework 13

2.4.7 Impact of teleworking on families 14

Chapter 3. Results from the Family Survey

3.1 The FAMILIES analytic framework 15

3.1.1 Family types 15

3.1.2 eWorking arrangements 15

3.1.3 Impact at the work-family interface 16

3.2 The FAMILY survey 17

3.3 Approach and methods 18

3.3.1 Sampling frame 18

3.4 Finding the sample 19

3.5 Methods 19

3.5.1 Process of undertaking the case studies 20

3.6 Sampling objectives and achievements 20

3.6.1 Family-types 21

3.6.2 Work-types 22

3.7 Other characteristics of the sample 24

3.8 The diversity of cases and reasons for eWorking 28

3.8.1 The variety of actual cases 28

3.8.2 Reasons for adoption 29

3.9 Results from the survey 32

3.10 Global views on the eWork arrangements 33

3.10.1 Overall satisfaction 33

3.10.2 Suitability for family needs 34

3.10.3 Sustainability 34

3.11 Work-related factors 35

3.12 Practical aspects of time and place 39

3.12.1 Commuting 39

3.12.2 Work-related visitors to the home 39

3.12.3 Home workspaces 40

3.12.4 Boundary management in time and place 41

3.12.5 The variety of impacts of time and place 41

3.13 Psychosocial impacts 43

3.14 Distribution of costs and benefits 46

3.14.1 Overall winners and losers

Work or family? 46

3.14.2 Impact on (gendered) roles in relation to family work 47

3.14.3 Costs and benefits for the different stakeholders 48

3.15 Technology at the workfamily interface 56

3.15.1 Work-related technology in the home 56

3.15.2 Technology to help deal with family matters whilst working away from the home 57

Chapter 4. Work Family Scenarios for the eWork Era 58

Chapter 5. Emergent Issues and Themes

5.1 The right place at the right time?

eWork's impacts on where and when work is done 70

5.2 Why do it?

Reasons for adoption of eWork 74

5.3 Different levels and types of impact 77

5.4 Winners and losers

Who or what benefits from eWork 78

5.5 Labour market and career issues

Down-shifting, up-shifting and self-employment 80

5.6 Dreams and realities

The advantages and disadvantages of working from home 82

5.7 The importance of reversibility

eWorking should not be life sentence 83

5.8 Neither here nor there, neither one thing nor the other

Managing the boundaries 83

5.9 The perceptions of others 84

5.10 Who's minding the children?

No substitute for childcare 86

5.11 Back to the future, back to the kitchen sink?

Sharing of household duties 88

5.12 Doing it (all) yourself

Lone parent families 90

5.13 Working and caring

Families with dependants who have special needs 91

5.14 Couples without children 93

5.15 Single people 94

5.16 The role of technology 94

5.17 Sharing ISTs between work and family

Conflict or synergy? 95

5.18 Techno-futures: technology at the work-family interface 97

5.19 Useful supports

What could facilitate the diffusion and sustainability of eWorking 97

5.20 The centrality of gender

As always! 99

5.21 National variations 101

Chapter 6. Implications for Policy and Recommendations

6.1 About the recommendations 104

6.1.1 The policy space addressed by FAMILIES 104

6.2 Policy recommendations for action 105

6.3 Policy makers 105

6.3.1 Actions supporting reconciliation 105

6.3.2 Actions supporting quality of work and equal opportunities 107

6.3.3 Actions supporting RTD and Information Society Policies 108

6.4 Employers 109

6.4.1 Actions supporting reconciliation 110

6.4.2 Actions supporting quality of work 111

6.5 Trade unions 113

6.6 Citizens and Families organisations 114

6.7 RTD priorities for Europe's 6th Framework Programme 115

6.8 Proposal for new eWorking Statistical Indicators 117

6.8.1 Quantitative indicators 118

6.8.2 Qualitative indicators 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122).

ISBN:

1586033107

4274905667

OCLC:

52557858