Metaphysical labour

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dc.contributor.author	Raastrup Kristensen, Anders
dc.date.accessioned	2009-12-16
dc.date.accessioned	2009-12-16T12:18:58Z
dc.date.available	2009-12-16T12:18:58Z
dc.date.issued	2009-12-16
dc.identifier.isbn	9788759384114
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7973
dc.description.abstract	This thesis offers a critical contribution to the theories of work-life balance. Within the contemporary theoretical perspectives on work and life the individuals are constructed as being responsible for work-life balance by turning it into a problem of the personal behaviour, decisions, psychological traits and family condition of the human subject. In this sense the everyday problem of balancing between work and home is reduced to be primarily an individual problem and decision. When the problem of work-life balance is raised in this way, it is difficult for companies to offer managerial and organizational solutions that do not automatically exclude this as an individual problem. It might be possible for managers and organizations to help the employees in achieving work-life balance, but it is fundamentally a challenge that the individual employees must solve. The thesis offers a different perspective on the relation between work and life. This perspective is not based upon the individual employees’ perception and hence constitution of work-life balance. Instead, it is argued that the constitution of the relation of work and life is to be found in its effects. These effects are not established in the constitution of the boundary between work and home, but are rather recognized by how the employees determine and define activities and tasks as work. For example, is it work to send email in the evening? Is it work to read an article at the weekend? Is it work to update a profile on Facebook? The question is therefore ‘what is work?’ and not ‘what is the boundary between work and home?’	en_US
dc.format.extent	278 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Copenhagen Business School	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Ph.D. Series;2010-02
dc.subject.other	Ph.d.-afhandlinger	en_US
dc.title	Metaphysical labour	en_US
dc.type	phd	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt09dec16 jobrmo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.corporationshort	Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	LPF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	LPF	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656604327	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2010	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	Flexibility, performance and commitment in work-life management	en_US