Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond

"Overall this book clearly presents the many reservations from diverse stakeholders regarding WLB and challenges us to reconsider and reconcile the implied gender neutrality, fairness and social justice footings of the WLB discourse during austerity. I highly recommend this volume in its ability to query issues of autonomy, negotiated working times and workplaces, whose agenda WLB truly is, and how its approaches, mantras and practices have been hijacked in ways that perpetuate the neoliberal agenda fostering austerity." Judie M Gannon, Oxford Brookes University, UK, Work employment and society

Suzan Lewis is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University, London, UK. Deirdre Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management, UK. Clare Lyonette is a Principal Research Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER), UK. Nicola Payne is a Health Psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychology at Middlesex University, UK. Stephen Wood is Professor of Management, School of Business, University of Leicester, UK.

1. Working Time Trends and Work-Life Balance in Europe since the Onset of the Great Recession Colette Fagan and Greet Vermeylen 2. Work-Life Balance, Health and Well-Being in Times of Austerity Gail Kinman and Almuth McDowall 3. Employer Support for Work-Life Balance in Recession: Findings for Britain from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey Lucy Stokes and Stephen Wood 4. Work-Life Balance and Austerity: Implications of New Ways of Working in British Public Sector Organisations Clare Lyonette, Deirdre Anderson, Suzan Lewis, Nicola Payne and Stephen Wood 5. Regulating Work and Care Relationships in a Time of Austerity: A Legal Perspective Nicole Busby and Grace James 6. Trade Unions and Work-Life Balance: The Impact of the Great Recession in France and the UK Susan Milner 7. Work-Life Balance and Class: In Search of Working-Class Work-Lives. Tracey Warren 8. Self-Employment in Times of Economic Crisis: Work-Life Challenges Laura den Dulk, Anne Annink and Bram Peper 9. The Physical Workplace and Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Practice Ziona Strelitz 10. Revisiting the Dual Agenda: Why Companies Miss the Point if they Retract Flexible Work Arrangements during Bad Times Hyosun Kim, Lotte Bailyn and Deborah M. Kolb 11. Towards a Triple Agenda for Work-Life Balance Beyond Recession and Austerity Deirdre Anderson, Jonathan Swan and Suzan Lewis