Based on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights
Table of Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables ix
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Inclusive Regional Learning? 1
2 Recentering Regional Learning: Beyond Masculinist Geographies of Regional Advantage 16
3 Work]Life Balance and its Uncertain ‘Business Case’ 38
4 Researching Labour Geographies of Work-Life and Learning in Ireland and the UK 67
5 Juggling Work, Home and Family in the Knowledge Economy 86
6 Overcoming Work-Life Conflict and the Gendered Limits to Learning and Innovation? 117
7 Work-Life Balance, Cross-Firm Worker Mobility and Gendered Knowledge Spillovers 145
8 Conclusions: Gendered Regional Learning and Work-Life Advantage 176
References 197
Index 226
