James, Al
Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
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 for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world
Keywords: Social & Cultural Geography, European Politics, Social & Cultural Geography, European Politics, Work-life balance; economic geography; feminist geography; regional learning; alternative working arrangements; innovation; gender inequality; quality of life; family well-being
- Author(s)
- James, Al
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- RGS-IBG Book Series
- Page amount
- 248 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118944813
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118944844