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Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of family-friendly' working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms' capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth.

  • Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family
  • Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow business case' for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist dual agenda'
  • Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the ideal worker and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments
  • 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

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/12/2017
      ISBN13: 9781118944844, 978-1118944844
      ISBN10: 1118944844
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      Personnel and human resources Politics and government Sociology: work and labour

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of family-friendly' working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms' capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth.

      • Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family
      • Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow business case' for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist dual agenda'
      • Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the ideal worker and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments
      • 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

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