Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
Alison James
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Description for Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
Hardcover. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118944844
SKU
V9781118944844
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Alison James
Al James is Reader in Economic Geography at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests include gendered labour geographies of work-life and socially inclusive growth; the regional cultural economy of learning and innovation; and the hybrid economic/development geographies of India's new service economy. His work has been funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, Nuffield Foundation, Arts and Humanities ... Read more
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