Wired to the world, chained to the home : telework in daily life / Penny Gurstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurstein, Penny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommuting.

Home labor.

Home-based businesses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does working at home change people's activity patterns, social networks, and their living and working spaces? How will it change the way we plan houses and communities in the future? Will telecommuting solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qualitative and quantitative data from ten years of original research, including in-depth interviews and surveys, to understand the socio-spatial impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of teleworkers including employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, the distinct differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting. As organizational structures, technology, and family priorities continue to change, the often overlooked phenomenon of teleworkers has important implications on everything from employment policies to community planning and design.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Telework As Restructured Work

Profiling the Teleworker: Contextualizing Telework

Working at Home and Being at Home: Blurred Boundaries

A Strategy of a Dispensable Workforce: Telework in Canada

Localizing the Networked Economy: A Vancouver Case Study

"I Don't Have a Home, I Live in My Office": Transformations in the Spaces of Daily Life

Convergence: Telework As Everywhere, Every Time

Conclusion

California Study on the Social and Environmental Impact of Working at Home

Canadian Telework and Home-Based Employment Survey

Respondent Occupations, California Study

Respondent Occupations, Canadian Survey

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-240) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-11160-8

9786613111609

0-7748-5009-4

OCLC:

559582211