Wired to the world, chained to the home : telework in daily life / Penny Gurstein.

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Gurstein, Penny

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0774850094
9780774850094
9780774808460
0774808462
1283111608
9781283111607
9786613111609
6613111600

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331.25 21

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HD2336.3 .G87 2001eb

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Contents:

""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Wired to the World, Chained to the Home""; ""1 Telework As Restructured Work""; ""2 Profiling the Teleworker: Contextualizing Telework""; ""3 Working at Home and Being at Home: Blurred Boundaries""; ""4 A Strategy of a Dispensable Workforce: Telework in Canada""; ""5 Localizing the Networked Economy: A Vancouver Case Study""; ""6 â€œI Donâ€?t Have a Home, I Live in My Officeâ€?: Transformations in the Spaces of Daily Life""; ""7 Convergence: Telework As Everywhere, Every Time""; ""8 Conclusion""

""Appendix A California Study on the Social and Environmental Impact of Working at Home""""Appendix B Canadian Telework and Home- Based Employment Survey""; ""Appendix C Respondent Occupations, California Study""; ""Appendix D Respondent Occupations, Canadian Survey""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""

Review: Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qualitative and quantitative data from ten years of original research, including in-depth interviews and surveys, to understand the socio-spatial impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of teleworkers including employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, the distinct differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting. As organizational structures, technology, and family priorities continue to change, the often overlooked phenomenon of teleworkers has important implications on everything from employment policies to community planning and design.[publisher].

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-240) and index.

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Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qualitative and quantitative data from ten years of original research, including in-depth interviews and surveys, to understand the socio-spatial impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of teleworkers including employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, the distinct differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting. As organizational structures, technology, and family priorities continue to change, the often overlooked phenomenon of teleworkers has important implications on everything from employment policies to community planning and design.[publisher].

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