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Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark (2024)
Journal Article
Warren, T., & Hyltoft, L. (2024). Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-06-2024-0287

Purpose
The article asks how to lead the world in work–life balance (WLB) societal rankings, identifies the major WLB challenges in contemporary societies and rethinks how we conceptualise and measure WLB.

Design/methodology/approach
This study... Read More about Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark.

Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times (2024)
Journal Article
Warren, T., Torres, L., Lyonette, C., & Tarlo, R. (2025). Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times. British Journal of Sociology, 76(1), 96-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13147

The article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both ha... Read More about Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times.

Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, V., Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2024). Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241254794

Underemployment is a widely discussed but complex concept. This article progresses discussions and provides a new sociological conceptualisation. It builds on a classic theory of unemployment, Jahoda et al.’s ‘latent deprivation theory’ (LDT), that i... 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
Warren, T. (2022). Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times. Sociology, 56(1), 72-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211019660

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 2008–2009 was accompanied by a considerable expansion in... 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
Warren, T. (2021). Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda?. Journal of Industrial Relations, 63(4), 522-545. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856211007161

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
Beck, V., Fuertes, V., Kamerade, D., Lyonette, C., & Warren, T. (2020). Working Lives. In M. Parker (Ed.), Life after Covid-19: The Other Side of Crisis. Bristol University Press

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
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2020). Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK. British Journal of Sociology, 71(2), 382-402. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12741

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
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2018). 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, Employment and Society, 32(4), 747-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762289

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
Warren, T. (in press). Work-life balance, time and money: identifying the work-life balance priorities of working class workers. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations -Deventer then the Hague-,

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
Warren, T. (2016). Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives. In S. Lewis, D. Anderson, C. Lyonette, N. Payne, & S. Wood (Eds.), Work-life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond (112-130). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683263

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
Warren, T. (2015). Work and social theory. In S. Edgell, E. Granter, & H. Gottfried (Eds.), The Sage handbook of the sociology of work and employment. Sage

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
Warren, T. (2015). Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class. British Journal of Sociology, 66(4), 691-717. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12160

© 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
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2015). The quality of part-time work. In A. Felstead, D. Gallie, & F. Green (Eds.), Unequal Britain at work. Oxford University Press

Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Warren, T. (2015). Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK. Work, Employment and Society, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014559264

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
Warren, T. (2014). Economic crisis, work life balance and class. In K. Farnsworth, Z. Irving, & M. Fenger (Eds.), Social Policy Review 26: analysis and debate in social policy 2014. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447315568.001.0001

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
Warren, T. (2011). Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings. Sociological Review, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01993.x

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
Warren, T. (2010). Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe. Community, Work and Family, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/13668801003765713

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
Fox, E., Pascall, G., & Warren, T. Innovative Social Policies for Gender Equality at Work. School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham [online]

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.