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Al James - Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation - 9781118944837 - V9781118944837
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Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation

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Description for Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation Paperback. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. 

  • Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family
  • Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow ‘business case’ for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist ‘dual agenda’
  • Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the “ideal worker” and ... Read more
  • Based on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world
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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118944837
SKU
V9781118944837
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12

About Al James
Al James is Reader in Economic Geography at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests include gendered labour geographies of work-life and socially inclusive growth; the regional cultural economy of learning and innovation; and the hybrid economic/development geographies of India's new service economy. His work has been funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, Nuffield Foundation, Arts and Humanities ... Read more

Reviews for Work-Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
Work–life advantage: sustaining regional learning and innovation Al James Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-118-94483-7 (paperback) 248 pp. Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-118-94484-4 (hardback) 248 pp. Price: $94.95 This fascinating book offers a well-grounded and clearly stated argument that work–life balance is a crucial element in the mix of factors that sustain regional learning and innovation, making a significant contribution to the ... Read more

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