{"product_id":"worklife-advantage-9781118944844","title":"WorkLife Advantage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWork-Life Advantage\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses 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'\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the ideal worker and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBased on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Inclusive Regional Learning? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Recentering Regional Learning: Beyond Masculinist Geographies of Regional Advantage 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Work]Life Balance and its Uncertain ‘Business Case’ 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Researching Labour Geographies of Work-Life and Learning in Ireland and the UK 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Juggling Work, Home and Family in the Knowledge Economy 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Overcoming Work-Life Conflict and the Gendered Limits to Learning and Innovation? 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Work-Life Balance, Cross-Firm Worker Mobility and Gendered Knowledge Spillovers 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Conclusions: Gendered Regional Learning and Work-Life Advantage 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 226\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406952898903,"sku":"9781118944844","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118944844.jpg?v=1730497671","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/worklife-advantage-9781118944844","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}