Fighting for Time

by Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs; Kalleberg, Arne L.

• ISBN13: 9780871542861
• ISBN10: 0871542862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Author Biography

Arne L. Kalleberg is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Time and Work: Changes and Challenges	1	(24)
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Arne L. Kalleberg
PART I CHANGES IN WORKING TIME AND TIMING AND CONSEQUENCES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES
Understanding Changes in American Working Time: A Synthesis	25	(21)
Jerry A. Jacobs
Kathleen Gerson
Employment in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for the Family	46	(31)
Harriet B. Presser
The Health and Family-Social Consequences of Shift Work and Schedule Control: 1977 and 1997	77	(36)
Rudy Fenwick
Mark Tausig
PART II TIME AND THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK
Temporal Depth, Age, and Organizational Performance	113	(37)
Allen C. Bluedorn
Stephen P. Ferris
Bicycle Messengers and the Dialectics of Speed	150	(41)
Benjamin Stewart
Engineering Overwork: Bell-Curve Management at a High-Tech Firm	191	(28)
Ofer Sharone
The Power of Time: Leadership, Management, and Gender	219	(30)
David L. Collinson
Margaret Collinson
PART III TIME NORMS, GENDER, AND WORK
Gender, Work, and Time: Gender at Work and at Play in Futures Trading	249	(33)
Peter Levin
Work Devotion and Work Time	282	(35)
Mary Blair-Loy
Border Crossings: The Constraints of Time Norms in Transgressions of Gender and Professional Roles	317	(24)
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Index	341