Flexible Working and Organisational Change

Edited by Bram Peper, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes, Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University and Laura den Dulk, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents: Preface Part I: Change in a European Context 1. Introduction 2. Work and Family Life in Europe: Employment Patterns of Working Parents Across Welfare States 3. Organisational Change, Gender and Integration of Work and Private Life 4. New Working Arrangements and Organisational Change in the Netherlands 5. Occupational Sex Segregation and Societal Change Part II: Flexible Working 6. Gender Equality and the Work–Life Balance: Policies and Practices in the New Economy 7. Flexibillisation, Deregulation and Working Time: A Gendered Question: Evidence from Spain 8. Long-term Effects of Flexible Work Part III: Working Time, Leave Facilities and Teleworking 9. Employers’ and Employees’ Preferences on Working Time in Finland 10. Do Dutch Employees Want to Work More or Fewer Hours Than They Actually Do? 11. Internal and External Career Aspirations of Men and Women Within their Organisations 12. Assessing the Use of Parental Leave by Fathers: Towards a Conceptual Framework 13. IT and Telework Part IV: The Integration of Work and Personal Life 14. Looking Backwards to go Forwards: The Integration of Paid Work and Personal Life 15. Flexible Work and Organisational Change from a European Perspective: Challenges for Future Research Index

‘Flexible Working and Organisational Change offers an interesting variety of studies. . . I am confident that the book will appeal to a large group of readers. Readers looking for stat-of-the-art research on topics such as changes in employment patterns, gender issues, working time preferences, leave facilities, tele-working or flexible working will certainly find the book to their taste.'