Parenting, work and the marketization of family life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jazmin Cullen (0000-0001-7292-573X, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author), John G Cullen |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 875-880 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017015581768 |
| OpenAlex | W2190992097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
In the contemporary late capitalist milieu, changes in the nature of labour have resulted in long-standing divisions between work and family life being compromised. The three texts reviewed in this essay are all concerned with what happens when long-established boundaries between work and non-work are blurred in a way which impact on family and gender roles. Arlie Russell Hochschild’s The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us continues her research (1997, 2003) on what happens when market principles intrude on the personal lives of workers. Jane Dennehy’s Competition, Gender and Management explores how competition in the area of management is gendered from the perspective of a researcher who sees conventional understandings of both ‘competition’ and ‘management’ as problematic. Paula McDonald and Emma Jeanes’ edited collection, Men, Wage Work and Family attempts to address the lack of theory on the role of fathers in families that has changed as a result of the huge increase of female participation in workforces. Hochschild’s The Outsourced Self begins by clarifying how the impact of the rapid increase of women in the North American workplace, coupled with the growth of singleparent families in the USA since the 1970s, resulted in a precarious working environment for all. One of the outcomes of this is that much of the work which used to be done in the home is now completed in the private sector. This experience has been replicated across the Western, industrialized world and has resulted in the emergence of long-hours 581768WES0010.1177/0950017015581768Work, employment and societyBook review essay book-review2015
China · Developmental psychology · Family life · Marketization · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |