Ways of Living

Work, Community and Lifestyle Choice

By: Paul Blyton (Editor), Betsy Blunsdon (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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The debate surrounding work-life balance has increasingly recognized the need to study the factors influencing lifestyle, or ways of living, within a broader context than has often been the case hitherto. This international collection explores aspects of lifestyle and identity, societal influences on ways of living, the relevance of social networks and geographic communities for lifestyle choices, and the significance of organisational policies and practices for lifestyle outcomes. In so doing, it broadens the focus of current debates and presents recent research findings collected in a range of different national, organizational and community settings. Findings from a variety of research approaches are discussed, ranging from in-depth interviews to analysis of cross-national data. Overall the collection points to the value of exploring the broader contexts within which the relationship between work and non-work lives are located.

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List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. x
Social Change and Ways of Living: An Introduction
Lifestyle and Identity
An Analysis of Time Use to Reveal National Differences in Lifestyle Patterns	p. 17
Households, Work, Time Use and Energy Consumption	p. 33
Longer to Launch: Demographic Changes in Life-Course Transitions	p. 75
Fortunate Lives: Professional Careers, Social Position and Life Choices	p. 99
'Live to Work or Work to Live?' The Search for Work-life Balance in Twenty-first Century Japan	p. 120
Community
Personal Communities and Lifestyle: The Role of Family, Friends and Neighbours	p. 147
To Downshift or Not to Downshift? Why People Make and don't Make Decisions to Change their Lives	p. 175
Ways of Life after Redundancy: Anatomy of a Community Following Factory Closure	p. 202
Work and Organisations
What Do (And Don?t) We Know About Part-Time Professional Work?	p. 223
Work Values Across Cultures: The Role of Affect and job Outcomes among Young Executives in Canada, Iran and Turkey	p. 241
Designing for Weil-Being: The Role of the Physical Work Environment	p. 267
Shifting Responsibility for Health and Healthy Lifestyles: Exploring Canadian Trends	p. 288
Index	p. 311
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