Work-Family Dynamics

Berit Brandth is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.Sigtona Halrynjo (PhD Sociology) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway.Elin Kvande ( Dr.polit. Sociology ) is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

• ContentsList of figures and tables Integrating work and family: Changing institutions and competing logics Elin Kvande, Berit Brandth and Sigtona Halrynjo Part 1 Current challenges of work-family dynamics – institutional differences The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy: A view from the U.S. Kathleen Gerson Managing work-life tensions in the neo-liberal UK Diane Perrons Work and family cultures: Dynamics of family change in Southern Europe Isabella Crespi and Almudena Moreno Mínguez Fathers integrating work and childcare: Reconciling the logics? Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande Part 2 Gendered logics and strategies of work and parenting When work meets childcare: The competing logics of mothering and gender equality Kristine Warhuus Smeby Making sense of motherhood and fatherhood: Competing moral discourses and logics of caring and work 'choices' in the UK Tina Miller Hidden rules and competing logics: Working fathers within organizations in Germany Mechtild Oechsle and Sandra Beaufaÿs Part 3 Competing logics intensified: Careers and elite professions Long hours and the work devotion schema: The case of executive men in the United States Mary Blair-Loy and Stacy J. Williams Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context Gunnhild Foss Heggem and Elin Kvande Pregnancy as a career killer Hege Børve Exploring the career logic within the Nordic work-family model Sigtona HalrynjoList of contributors