Ways of Living

1. Social Change and Ways of Living: An Introduction
Betsy Blunsdon, Ken Reed, Paul Blyton, Ali Dastmalchian

Part I. Lifestyle and Identity

2. An Analysis of Time Use to Reveal National Differences in Lifestyle Patterns
Ken Reed, Guy Cucumel

3. Households, Work, Time Use and Energy Consumption
Steven McEachern

4. Longer to Launch: Demographic Changes in Life-Course Transitions
Rosemary A. Venne

5. Fortunate Lives: Professional Careers, Social Position and Life Choices
Tanya Castleman, Rosslyn Reed

6. ‘Live to Work or Work to Live?’ The Search for Work-life Balance in Twenty-first Century Japan
Tim Craig

Part II. Community

7. Personal Communities and Lifestyle: The Role of Family, Friends and Neighbours
Betsy Blunsdon, Nicola McNeil

8. To Downshift or Not to Downshift? Why People Make and don’t Make Decisions to Change their Lives
Carmel Goulding, Ken Reed

9. Ways of Life after Redundancy: Anatomy of a Community Following Factory Closure
Paul Blyton, Jean Jenkins

Part III. Work and Organisations

10. What Do (And Don’t) We Know About Part-Time Professional Work?
Vivien Corwin

11. Work Values Across Cultures: The Role of Affect and Job Outcomes among Young Executives in Canada, Iran and Turkey
Hayat Kabasakal, Pinar Imer, Ali Dastmalchian

12. Designing for Well-Being: The Role of the Physical Work Environment
Claudia Steinke, Rei Kurosawa, Ali Dastmalchian

13. Shifting Responsibility for Health and Healthy Lifestyles: Exploring Canadian Trends
Angela Downey, Ali Dastmalchian, Helen M. Kelley, David Sharp, Kristene D’Agnone

Keywords: Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Sociology, general, Management, Economics, general