The flexibility paradox : why flexible working leads to (self- )exploitation / Heejung Chung.
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Policy Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self- )Exploitation
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures, tables and box
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The flexibility paradox and contexts
- Introduction
- The contexts
- Contexts of the increase in flexible working
- Increase in female employment and demand for better work-life balance
- Developments in digital technologies
- Commuting, and office and travel costs
- COVID-19
- Contexts of self-exploitation
- Always-on culture
- Insecurity
- Work-centred society
- Passion
- The book
- Flexibility paradox
- Background
- Outline of the book
- How to read this book
- Quick word on methodologies
- The take-home message
- Notes
- 2 The demand for and trends in flexible working
- Introduction
- What is flexible working?
- Definitions
- Flexibility as an arrangement or an approach?
- The demand for and provisions of flexible working
- The demand for flexible working
- Government response to the demand for flexible working to date
- European Commission directive on work-life balance
- UK
- The Netherlands
- Italy
- Finland
- Australia
- Korea
- Empirical data on the use and provision of flexible working
- Provision of flexitime across Europe11
- Access to flexible working
- Has there been a growth in flexible working?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 The dual nature of flexibility: family-friendly or performance-oriented logic?
- Introduction
- The dual nature of flexible working
- Flexible working as a family-friendly arrangement
- Flexible working as a high-performance management system
- Theories on the determinants of flexible working provision and access
- Principle of need/family-friendly demands
- Principle of equity/expected performance outcome
- Higher status
- Bargaining power
- Structural factors
- Empirical data analysis results
- Provision of flexitime
- company-level analysis
- Access to flexitime/working time autonomy
- individual-level analysis
- Outside Europe
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 The outcomes of flexible working
- Introduction
- Summaries of existing studies
- Performance outcomes
- Workers' well-being
- Work-life balance
- Enhancing employment of mothers and carers
- Work-life balance satisfaction
- Empirical analysis results
- Data and variables
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 The flexibility paradox: why more freedom at work leads to more work
- Introduction
- Theories behind the flexibility paradox
- Gift exchange, enabled and imposed intensification
- Self-exploitation
- Organisational culture and self-exploitation
- Entreprenurialisation of self and careers
- Subjectification of self
- Manifestations of the paradox: passion at work as the basis for self-exploitation
- Passion
- Busyness as a badge of honour
- Passion paradox
- Millennial burnout
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 The empirical evidence of the flexibility paradox
