Description
About the Author
Suzan Lewis is Professor of Organisational Psychology in the Department of Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School. She has extensive research experience on work-personal life issues and workplace practice, culture and change in different workplace and social policy contexts. She is a founding editor of the international journal "Community, Work and Family". Julia Brannen is professor of sociology of the family at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her research has focussed on gender, health, work-family life, parents, intergenerational relations, young people and children in families. She has a special interest in methodology, in particular mixed methods, and co-founded and coedits the "International Journal of Social Research Methodology". Ann Nilsen is professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. Her extensive research experience is in areas of life course methodology including biographical studies, transitions in the life course and work family issues.
Reviews
'The book tackles important contemporary themes, and by placing the issues faced by working parents in the wider context of organisational change and national policy frameworks, it allows for the findings to be interpreted in a more holistic sense.' Clare Kelliher, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University
"This thought provoking book raises compelling questions about how contemporary ways of working can become compatible with socially sustainable workplaces, families and communities." Rhona Rapoport, Former Director of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research
Book Information
ISBN 9781847422200
Author Suzan Lewis
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Policy Press