Penny Gurstein

Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780774808477
• ISBN-10: 0774808470
• Artikelnr.: 21947863

Autorenporträt

Penny Gurstein is Associate Professor at the UBCSchool of Community and Regional Planning and Chair of the Centre forHuman Settlements, where she specializes in urban design, participatoryplanning processes, and the sociocultural aspects of communityplanning.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Telework As Restructured Work
2. Profiling the Teleworker: Contextualizing Telework
3. Working at Home and Being at Home: Blurred Boundaries
4. A Strategy of a Dispensable Workforce: Telework in Canada
5. Localizing the Networked Economy: A Vancouver Case Study
6. "I Don't Have a Home, I Live in My Office": Transformations in the
Spaces of Daily Life
7. Convergence: Telework As Everywhere, Every Time
8. Conclusion
Appendices
A. Survey Instrument of California Study: Interview Schedule for Study on
Social and Environmental Impact of Working at Home
B. Survey Instrument of Canadian Survey: Telework and Home-Based Employment
Survey
C. Respondent Occupations, California Study
D. Respondent Occupations, Canadian Survey
Notes
Bibliography
Index