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Laura den Dulk Work-family arrangements in organisations A cross-national study in the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden |
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Organisations implement arrangements to allow members of the workforce to balance career and family life. Some employers offer flexible working hours, parental leave and childcare schemes. They are famous for being 'family-friendly'. Other employers offer no such supportive arrangements. This study investigates why some employers get involved while others do not. A cross-national perspective reveals different patterns in the nature and degree of employers' involvement in various welfare state regimes. The countries included in this book are the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Employers calculate the costs and benefits of work-family arrangements, while taking both institutional conditions and organisational needs into account. In this study differences between employers are analysed in relation to social policy and the wider welfare state context. Laura den Dulk is a sociologist and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Table of contents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Work-family arrangements in the context of welfare state regimes 3. The role of employers: theoretical model 4. Research design 5. Work-family arrangements in organisations 6. Organisational differences within countries 7. A comparison between countries 8. Conclusions References Appendix Samenvatting (Dutch summary) About the author Bestel/Order |
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