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Work-Life/City Limits

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Work-Life/City Limits

By Helen Jarvis

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About the book

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, wo...Show more

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ISBN

9781403914965

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Work-Life/City Limits

Format

Hardcover

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