Collapsing the boundaries? Fatherhood, organization and home-working
Halford, Susan (2006) Collapsing the boundaries? Fatherhood, organization and home-working. Gender, Work and Organization, 13, (4), 383-402. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00313.x).
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In the modern western world, the discursive construction of fatherhood and everyday fathering practices has been underpinned by the spatial separation of work from home, of public from private. However, increasing numbers of employees are now working from home and a disproportionate number of these are men with young children. This article draws on new empirical research to examine the implications for fathers and for organizations as home-working disrupts earlier spatial configurations of fatherhood and fathering practices. The article concludes that as the spatial boundaries between home and work collapse, new accommodations between fatherhood/fathering and organization are emerging. However, these are underpinned by a traditional gender division of labour in the household. More broadly, these findings confirm the inadequacy of static distinctions between public and private, showing that while such distinctions are still used to mark space and time, this is relational, contingent and unstable.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0968-6673 (print) |
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| Keywords: | fatherhood, fathering practices, public/private, spatial boundaries, home-working |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Sociology and Social Policy |
| Item ID: | 34802 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2011 23:58 |
| Contributors: | Halford, Susan (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/34802 |
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