Unequal Time : Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules /

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"Unequal Time investigates the connected schedules of four health sector occupations: professional doctors and nurses, and working-class EMTs and nursing assistants. While the work-family literature mostly examines the hours people work, Clawson and Gerstel delve into the process through which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clawson, Dan
Corporate Author: Russell Sage Foundation
Other Authors: Gerstel, Naomi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arbeitssoziologie
Freizeit
Familie
Work-Life-Balance
Arbeitszeit
Arbeitswelt
Medizinisches Personal
Work environment.
Time management surveys.
Manpower planning.
Hours of labor.
Allied health personnel.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Personnel paramedical.
Personnel medical > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Personnel medical > Gestion du temps > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Main-d'oeuvre > Planification > États-Unis.
Allied Health Occupations
Allied Health Personnel
Medical personnel > United States > Social conditions > Case studies.
Medical personnel > Time management > United States > Case studies.
Hours of labor > United States.
Time management surveys > United States.
Manpower planning > United States.
Work environment > United States.
USA
United States.
United States
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Unpredictability and unequal control in a web of time
  • Concepts and methods
  • The context: occupations and organizations
  • Setting the official schedule
  • Unpredictability and churning: is there a fixed schedule?
  • Adding time to the official schedule
  • Taking time off: sick leaves and vacations
  • Families and jobs: creating and responding to unpredictability
  • Unequal families: class shapes women's responses to unpredictability
  • Unequal families: class shapes men's responses to unpredictability
  • Strategies to address unpredictability
  • Finding solutions in the web of time: coworkers
  • The push of the family and the pull of the job
  • Inequality and the normal unpredictability of time.

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