Work/Life City Limits : Comparative Household Perspectives (1st ed. 2005)

This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together.

Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the social and environmental impact of this balancing act.

The book features cross-national and inter-city comparative household level research, highlighting significant contradictions underpinning the nature of production, consumer expectation, work-life balance and urban environmental quality.