Time and the Negotiation of Work–Family Boundaries
By J. Brannen. 2005
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The article reproblematizes time in relation to the concept of the ‘extended present’ by drawing upon empirical material from a methodological study of work–family boundaries, the article examines the effects of workplace change in a call centre on employees’ negotiation of these boundaries. Through detailed analysis of one of the cases discussed it shows how a female employee and her partner blur the boundaries between work and family life and how the woman concerned felt that she exercised control over time but also felt driven by it. The article sheds insight into the conditions that generate feelings of autonomy and its illusory nature. KEY WORDS • care • organizational change • time • work–family boundaries
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- ‘I'm Home for the Kids’: Contradictory Implications for Work–Life Balance of Teleworking Mothers (2008, unknown): “This imbalance was also noted in previous research by Brannen (2005) who commented, ‘It is unwise to assume that giving people more control over their lives necessarily leads to an improvement in the quality of their lives’ (pp. 127–8).”
- Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices (2013, background): “dispositions related to the fear of wasting time and that favour rigid allocations of practices to particular time slots in the day as shaping the temporal rhythms of everyday practices (Southerton, 2003); and studies of workplaces reveal differential dispositions towards the maintenance of clear bo”
- Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany (2016, background): “…words, to meet targets and increase pay, workers may increase rather than decrease their work intensity and overtime/working hours when given more control over their working hours and no clear working hour boundaries are set (see also, Brannen, 2005; Golden, 2009; Kelliher and Anderson, 2010).”
- Autonomy in Paid Work and Employee Subjective Well-Being (2017, background): “This enables employers to retain control and limit the power of employees while also increasing working hours: ‘‘the more autonomy employees are given over organizing their time in work seems to mean that they are spending longer and longer at work or working’’ (Brannen, 2005, p. 115).”