Jane Parry is Senior Research Fellow, who has worked in the Employment Group at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) since 2000. A qualitative sociologist, her research interests include labour market disadvantage, lifestyle transitions, and the significance of work for individual identities, in particular, how these are affected by class, gender, ethnicity and occupational sector.
Rebecca Taylor is Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute whose research interests include voluntary work, community work and forms of work outside employment. Recent research has focused on those marginalized by the labour market such as ethnic minorities and older workers.
Miriam Glucksmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has longstanding research interests in the historical and contemporary restructuring of work and employment. Her books include Women on the Line (1982) published under the pseudonym of Ruth Cavendish and Cotton and Casuals: the gendered organisation of labour in time and space (2000). Currently she is engaged on a three-year programme of research on `Transformations of work: new frontiers, shifting boundaries, changing temporalities' as an ESRC Professorial Fellow.
Part 1: Conceptualizing work.
Confronting the challenges of work today: New horizons and perspectives (Jane Parry, Rebecca Taylor, Lynne Pettinger and Miriam Glucksmann).
Shifting boundaries and interconnections: extending the `total social organisation of labour' (Miriam Glucksmann).
Part 2: Re-examining paid employment.
Friends, relations and colleagues: The blurred boundaries of the workplace (Lynne Pettinger).
Interaction distance and the social meaning of occupations (Wendy Bottero).
Changing Times; Flexibilization and the re-organization of work in feminized labour markets (Angela Coyle).
Part 3: Privatized work.
Time and labour: Fathers' perceptions of employment and childcare (Esther Dermott).
Doing the dirty work of social class? Mothers' work in support of their children's schooling (Diane Reay).
Part 4: Challenging the boundaries of the public and private spheres.
Rethinking voluntary work (Rebecca F. Taylor).
Markets and politics: public and private relations in the case of prostitution (Jackie West and Terry Austrin).
Care in the Community? Gender and the reconfiguration of community work in a post-mining neighbourhood (Jane Parry).
Part 5: International comparisons.
Public and private: Implications for care work (Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong).
Care, work and feeling (Clare Ungerson).
Welfare State regimes and the social organization of labour: Childcare arrangements and the work/family balance dilemma (Margarita Leon).
Bibliography.
Notes on Contributors.
Index.