All Outputs (17)

Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment (2024)
Journal Article

Underemployment is a widely discussed but complex concept. This article progresses discussions and provides a new sociological conceptualization. It builds on a classic theory of unemployment, Jahoda et al's 'latent deprivation theory' (LDT), that id... Read More about Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment.

Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times (2021)
Journal Article

The majority of male workers spend full-time hours in the labour market while part-time employment is heavily female dominated. A decade of economic unrest in the UK following the recession of 2008-9 was accompanied by a considerable expansion in the... Read More about Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times.

Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda? (2021)
Journal Article

The paper asks ‘Where are we’ in the study of work-life balance within IR and ‘where to next’ if we are to identify levers for positive change in workplace gender equality as technology brings the potential for smoothing or disrupting how women and m... Read More about Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda?.

Working Lives (2020)
Book Chapter

The Covid-19 crisis will have fundamental impacts on the future of working lives. Daily forecasts predict a depressing picture for the working-age population, both in the UK and abroad. This makes it difficult to identify positive outcomes from the c... Read More about Working Lives.

Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK (2020)
Journal Article

Research on part‐time work has concentrated over many decades on the experiences of women but male part‐time employment is growing in the UK. This article addresses two sizable gaps in knowledge concerning male part‐timers: are men's part‐time jobs o... Read More about Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK.

Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain (2018)
Journal Article

Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but low quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering lower wage rates and restri... Read More about Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain.

Work-life balance, time and money: identifying the work-life balance priorities of working class workers (2017)
Journal Article

This chapter provides an overview of the relative roles played by time and money in debates around work-life balance. It shows how time trumps money in dominant understandings of what ‘work-life’ means and in what parts of our lives are presumed to b... Read More about Work-life balance, time and money: identifying the work-life balance priorities of working class workers.

Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives (2016)
Book Chapter

If we think about the sort of person who is working hard to achieve a balance between their family, personal and working lives, what type of character tends to spring to mind? Might it be a working mum negotiating the demands of child-care and runnin... Read More about Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives.

Work and social theory (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter identifies some of the most important theoretical debates within the sociology of work and employment. It provides an historical context by introducing the key theoretical approaches that marked the birth of sociology. The chapter shows... Read More about Work and social theory.

Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper was stimulated by the relative absence of the working class from work-life debates. The common conclusion from work-life studies is that work-life imbalance is largely a middle-class... Read More about Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class.

The quality of part-time work (2015)
Book Chapter

Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK (2015)
Journal Article

The economic crisis that led to recession in the UK in 2008–9 impacted in multiple ways on work and economic life. This article examines changes to the work-time of employees. The UK stood out for its recessionary expansion of work-time underemployme... Read More about Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK.

Economic crisis, work life balance and class (2014)
Book Chapter

Since the 2008 economic crisis, each year has brought new challenges to welfare states. This important annual volume with contributions from an exciting mix of internationally renowned experts within the social policy community examines the economic... Read More about Economic crisis, work life balance and class.

Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings (2011)
Journal Article

The paper focuses on the potential of quantitative research methods for sociologists who research the gender division of unpaid domestic work. To begin, it reflects on the emergence of the sociological interest in unpaid domestic work and identifies... Read More about Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings.

Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe (2010)
Journal Article

In the study of work time, a wealth of influential ideas have emerged about the potentially damaging impact of too many hours in the labour market on the rest of peoples’ lives, as well as about the negative economic ramifications of short hours work... Read More about Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe.

Innovative Social Policies for Gender Equality at Work
Book

The project asked about policies to support work-family reconciliation among low-waged women in England. How are low-waged women constrained in their choices by limited and fragmentary social policies? We identified innovative social policies availab... Read More about Innovative Social Policies for Gender Equality at Work.

Innovative Social Policies for Gender Equality at Work: research findings
Book