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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Clawson, Dan
Collectivité auteur: Russell Sage Foundation
Autres auteurs: Gerstel, Naomi
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.