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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/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.

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.

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.