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Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
Contributor(s): James, Al (Author)
ISBN: 1118944836     ISBN-13: 9781118944837
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $39.43  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
Dewey: 306.36
LCCN: 2017026665
Series: Rgs-Ibg Book
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 248 pages
 
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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 for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world