Research Handbook on WorkLife Balance: Emerging Issues and Methodological Challe

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This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores the theoretical debate surrounding work-life balance, and provides a reflection on the opportunity to adopt multilevel research approaches and perspectives, along gender and temporal axes. The Research Handbook is an international overview of current research on work-life balance, considered in macro, meso and micro perspectives.Offering both theoretical reflections and empirical research examples illustrating the multiple strategies through which the different articulations that characterize the work-life intersection can be analysed, this Research Handbook includes analyses of gendered labour, generational assets and technological changes. Contributors provide translation and actualization of specific research practices and methodological choices, focused on different national contexts. The empirical analysis ranges from comparative research based on quantitative methods, to qualitative approaches centered on longitudinal, discursive and narrative perspectives, and mixed-method studies. Further contributions adopt innovative research methods based on the use of digital and visual technologies.This Research Handbook will be an inspiring read for both undergraduate and postgraduate sociology and social policy students. The book is also addressed to researchers, consultants and policy makers interested in work-life balance issues.

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Edited by Sonia Bertolini, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin and Barbara Poggio, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy

Table of Contents

Contents:1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Work–Life Balance 1Sonia Bertolini and Barbara PoggioPART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK2 Work–life balance and beyond: premises and challenges 8Anna Carreri, Annalisa Dordoni, and Barbara Poggio3 Doing research on work–life balance 27Sonia Bertolini and Rosy MusumeciPART II MULTILEVEL PERSPECTIVES ALONG GENDER ANDTEMPORAL AXES4 Research on work–life balance: a gender structure analysis 50Emily Hallgren and Barbara J. Risman5 Work–life balance through the life course 72Jeanne Ganault and Ariane Pailhé6 Work-(later) life balance: shifting the temporal frame 90Anne E. Barrett, Rachel Douglas and Jessica NoblittPART III COMPARATIVE RESEARCH (APPROACHES AND STUDIES)7 The household division of labour in Europe: a multilevel perspective 102Dirk Hofäcker and Simone Braun8 Subjective work–family conflicts: the challenge of studyingself-employed workers 118Rossella Bozzon and Annalisa MurgiaPART IV LONGITUDINAL, DISCURSIVE AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS9 Qualitative longitudinal research for studying work–family balance(before and after childbirth) 142Manuela Naldini10 Fathers in focus: two discursive analyses on addressing men, work and care 160Suvi Heikkinen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Emilia Kangas11 Work–life balance for fathers during paternal leave in Norway:a narrative approach 176Kristine Warhuus Smeby and Ulla ForsethPART V MIXED AND MULTIMETHOD RESEARCH12 Beyond the lines: gender, work, and care in the new economy – a viewfrom the U.S. 194Kathleen Gerson and Mauro Migliavacca13 The effect of childcare facilities on labour market participation amongyoung adults in Estonia: a mixed-methods study 217Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Epp Reiska14 Flexible work arrangements and diversity through a comparative andmultilevel lens 237Eleni Stavrou and Myrto AnastassiadouPART VI DIGITAL AND VISUAL METHODS15 The gendered labour of work–life balance: using a new method tounderstand an enduring dilemma 258Julia Cook and Dan Woodman16 'My work is full of gossipers so I tried to keep my pregnancy secret':'distant' netnography as a qualitative method for exploring work–lifebalance among pregnant and breastfeeding employees 274Caroline Gatrell17 The performance of oneself through visuals in interviews: queering thework–life binary 293Marjan De Coster and Patrizia ZanoniIndex

Review

'This wonderful Research Handbook introduces scholarly debates on work-life balance, provides new theoretical approaches and insights, proposes innovative qualitative and quantitative research methods, and uses longitudinal and cross-national research examples in the analysis of how people define and reconcile family and work relationships.' -- Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Emeritus of Excellence, TRAc, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany'This excellent collection enriches substantially the work-life balance literature both at the theoretical and empirical level. Focusing on the changing and diversified contexts in which work-life tensions are experienced and balances negotiated across gender and employment relations, the authors shed new light on the different micro and macro dimensions involved, as well as on the importance of a life course perspective. Using a variety of research methods, they look at different kinds of workers and working conditions, highlighting also the ongoing redefinition of the boundaries between (paid) work and other life spheres.' -- Chiara Saraceno, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy

Details ISBN1035323648 Author Barbara Poggio Pages 336 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781035323647 Format Paperback Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Subtitle Emerging Issues and Methodological Challenges Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Barbara Poggio AU Release Date 2023-08-28 NZ Release Date 2023-08-28 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 650.1 Publication Date 2023-08-08 UK Release Date 2023-08-08 We've got this

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