Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life

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UBC Press, 2001 - Business & Economics - 246 pages

How does working at home change people’s activity patterns, social networks, and their living and working spaces? Will telecommuting solve many of society’s ills, or create new ghettos?

Penny 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 impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting.

 

Contents

Telework As Restructured Work
3
Contextualizing Telework
22
Blurred Boundaries
46
Telework in Canada
78
A Vancouver Case Study
101
Transformations in the Spaces of Daily Life
120
Telework As Everywhere Every Time
153
Conclusion
191
Appendices
203
B Canadian Telework and HomeBased Employment Survey
215
Respondent Occupations California Study
226
Index
241
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About the author (2001)

Penny Gurstein is Associate Professor at the UBCSchool of Community and Regional Planning and Chair of the Centre forHuman Settlements, where she specializes in urban design, participatoryplanning processes, and the sociocultural aspects of communityplanning.

Bibliographic information

TitleWired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life
AuthorPenny Gurstein
EditorPenny Gurstein
Editionreprint
PublisherUBC Press, 2001
ISBN0774808470, 9780774808477
Length246 pages
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Business & Economics / Home-Based Businesses
Business & Economics / Labor / General
Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior
Business & Economics / Women in Business
Business & Economics / Workplace Culture
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Future Studies
Social Science / Human Geography
Social Science / Sociology / General
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
  
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