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Moderating Work and Leisure: The Relationship between the Work-Leisure Interface and Satisfaction with Work-Leisure Balance
Work and leisure are important parts of people’s lives, and achieving a balance between work and leisure has become a key concern. However, previous...
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Love of Work or Love and Work: Does a Business Owner’s Compulsion to Work Pay Off?
A business owner’s compulsion to work is a condition that can have jarring effects on business-owning families. A compulsion to work has been defined...
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The legacy of slavery, subjectivity and work: intergenerational transmission and the subjective relationship to work in Guadeloupe
The study presented here examines the subjective relationship of workers to their work in the historical context. More specifically, it looks at the...
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Cultural Work
This chapter explores the relationship between culture and work in the ‘new cultural economy’ of postindustrial society. The chapter traces a brief...
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Art Work Cities, Identities, and Cultural Work
This book is about the relationship between art and work in the cultural economy. It is an exploration of the experiences of people working in...
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Introduction to Social Work
This beginning chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social work, encompassing its meanings, scope, and various levels of...
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No Sex in Social Work: (the Lack of) Human Sexuality Courses in US Social Work Education
This research examined all social work programs in the USA to determine if free-standing human sexuality courses were required or offered. Human...
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Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations
Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to...
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Gendered Associations of Flexible Work Arrangement and Perceived Flexibility with Work–Life Interference: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis on Office Workers in Sweden
Flexible work arrangements (FWA) may be beneficial for increasing perceived flexibility (i.e. control over when, where and how to work) and reducing...
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Fieldwork in Social Work A Practical Guide
This book is an essential resource meticulously designed for social work field placements. It offers students a structured pathway through the...
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Parental Work Characteristics and Children’s Insufficient Sleep
Insufficient sleep for children is an understudied risk factor for health issues and poor educational outcomes. We argue that research has paid scant...
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Meaningful Youth Work Careers: Assumptions, Misconceptions, and Realities
The existing literature pertaining to youth work as a career is sparse, limited, and outdated, with the literature that does exist representing a...
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Work-life balance: redefining and rethinking the support framework
In light of the impact of new social risks (NSRs), finding a balance between work and other aspects of life has become an unavoidable challenge for...
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Evening Work and Its Relationship with Couple Time
This article examines the relationship between couple time and nonstandard working time, in particular evening work, using household-based time use...
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Organisational and Supervisor Support Links to Psychological Detachment from Work: Mediating Effect of Work-family Conflict on Dual-earner Couples
Dual-earner couples with adolescent children face increased challenges to manage work and family roles. This study aims to analyse the effect of two...
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Decent Work Environment and Work-Life Balance: Empirical Analysis of Banking Sector of Hostile Environments
A decent work environment is a crucial concept for promoting work-life balance. Using quantitative analysis with Partial Least Square_ Structural...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Temporary Agency Work: A Study of Restaurant Work in Finland
Ever expanding use of temporary agency work (TAW) easily attracts irresponsible actors on the business field in the hopes of making big profits and...
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Perceived Calling Enablement: Achieving Positive Work Outcomes Through Unanswered Calling
Despite the various positive outcomes of perceived calling fulfillment at work that previous scholars have suggested, little effort has been made to...
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Pracademia—Role Modelling HyFlex Digital Pedagogies in Youth Work Education
This research evaluates the experience of educators and students engaging in HyFlex learning experiences on a university Youth Work programme during...
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Perceived privacy in home office and musculoskeletal complaints: a test of family–work conflict, work–family conflict, and relaxation as mediators
Many employees have had to telework all year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though working from home has many advantages, there are also some...
