Suzan Lewis / Julia Brannen / Ann Nilsen (ed.)

Gebundenes Buch

Work, families and organisations in transition

Beschreibung

Based upon cross-national case studies of public and private sector workplaces, Work, families and organisations in transition illustrates how workplace practices and policies impact on employees' experiences of work-life balance in contemporary shifting contexts.

Autor

Suzan Lewis is Professor of Organisational Psychology in the Department of Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School. She has extensive research experience on work-personal life issues and workplace practice, culture and change in different workplace and social policy contexts. She is a founding editor of the international journal "Community, Work and Family". Julia Brannen is professor of sociology of the family at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her research has focussed on gender, health, work-family life, parents, intergenerational relations, young people and children in families. She has a special interest in methodology, in particular mixed methods, and co-founded and coedits the "International Journal of Social Research Methodology". Ann Nilsen is professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. Her extensive research experience is in areas of life course methodology including biographical studies, transitions in the life course and work family issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781847422200
• ISBN-10: 1847422209
• Artikelnr.: 26021991