Paid to party : working time and emotion in direct home sales / Jamie L. Mullaney and Janet Hinson Shope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullaney, Jamie L.

Contributor:

Shope, Janet Hinson, 1961-

Series:

Families in focus.

Families in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home parties (Marketing)--Social aspects.

Home parties (Marketing).

Direct selling--Social aspects.

Direct selling.

Women sales personnel.

Women--Employment--Social aspects.

Women.

Flexible work arrangements.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls' night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, Direct Home Sales companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings. Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how Direct Home Sales promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family.

Contents:

Creating a feel-good business: negotiating the work-family pieces

From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover

Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work

The girls' night out: social time and obligation

Let the games begin: the importance of playing along

Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86473-8

0-8135-5215-X

OCLC:

785785242