Berit Brandth - Work–Family Dynamics: Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals

WorkFamily Dynamics

Worklife integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and peoples everyday lives. This volume offers a new type of lens for understanding workfamily reconciliation by studying how workfamily dynamics are shaped, squeezed and developed between consistent or competing logics in different societies in Europe and the US.

The three institutions of state, family and working life, and their underexplored primary logics of regulation, morality and economic competitiveness, are examined theoretically as well as empirically throughout the chapters, thus contributing to an understanding of the contemporary challenges within the field of workfamily research, which combines structure and culture. Particular attention is given to the ways in which the institutions are confronted with various moral norms of good parenthood or motherhood and ideals for family life. Likewise, the logic of policy regulation and gendered family moralities are challenged by the economic logic of working life, based on competition in favour of the most productive workers and organizations.

Demonstrating different aspects of what is behind and between the logics of state regulation, morals and the market, this innovative volume will appeal to students, teachers and researchers interested in areas such as family studies, welfare state studies, social policy studies, worklife studies and gender studies.

Berit Brandth is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Sigtona Halrynjo (PhD, Sociology) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway.

Elin Kvande (Dr.polit., Sociology) is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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Contents

ELIN KVANDE, BERIT BRANDTH AND SIGTONA HALRYNJO

PART I
Current challenges of work-family dynamics: institutional differences

KATHLEEN GERSON

DIANE PERRONS

ISABELLA CRESPI AND ALMUDENA MORENO MNGUEZ

BERIT BRANDTH AND ELIN KVANDE

KRISTINE WARHUUS SMEBY

TINA MILLER

MECHTILD OECHSLE AND SANDRA BEAUFAYS

MARY BLAIR-LOY AND STACY J. WILLIAMS

GUNHILD FOSS HEGGEM AND ELIN KVANDE

HEGE EGGEN BRVE

SIGTONA HALRYNJO

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Sandra Beaufas, PhD, is a senior researcher at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany. Her main research interests are the academic profession and gender in higher education and gender in work contexts and professions. From 2012 to 2015 she was a research associate in the Work Organizations and Life Conduct of Fathers project at Bielefeld University, Germany, as part of Collaborative Research Center 882, From Heterogeneities to Inequalities (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German Research Foundation, DFG).

Mary Blair-Loy (associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, and director of the Center for Research on Gender in STEMM) has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. She uses multiple methods to study gender, the economy, work and family. Her empirical research has examined business elites, call centre workers and professionals in science and technology. She has published numerous scholarly articles and chapters. Her book Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women won the William J. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association and was listed as one of the 100 most-cited works in Sociology between 2008 and 2012.

Berit Brandth is professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research interests include family-, gender- and rural sociology. She has been working extensively on topics dealing with family policies, particularly fathers use of parental leave. Publications include Fathers and flexible parental leave (Work, Employment & Society, 2015, with Elin Kvande) and Rural masculinity and fathering practices (Gender, Place and Culture, 2016).

Hege Eggen Brve has a PhD in sociology and works as an associate professor at the Department of Business, Social and Environmental Sciences, Nord University, Levanger, Norway. She is researching and teaching on topics such as organization and work, equality, work and family, and globalization. Publications include Norwegian working fathers in global working life (