Life After Burberry: Shifting Experiences of Work and Non-Work Life Following Redundancy

Citations: http://wes.sagepub.com/content/26/1/26.refs.html >> Version of Record - Feb 17, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from wes.sagepub.com at University of Bath on March 21, 2013 Email: Jenkinsj1@cardiff.ac.uk Downloaded from wes.sagepub.com at University of Bath on March 21, 2013 Guest (2002: 260) has pointed out, there has been an equal tendency to explore ‘work-life conflict’ rather than examine possible positive associations within that relationship. For Guest (2002: 263), this reflects a widely held view that over the past generation the pressure of work has become a more dominant feature of many people’s McGovern et al., 2007; Perlow, 1999). Coupled with the growth in female labour market participation, particularly among women with dependent children, this is seen to increase Where the possibility for positive ‘spillover’ (Staines, 1980) between work and nonwork life has been examined, this has mainly been undertaken by social psychologists, generally approaching the issue both from an individual perspective and with the with family life (for example, Near et al., 1987). Less attention has been addressed to more aggregate levels of analysis more typically explored by sociologists, such as the influence of the work group or workplace community on life outside work (for a notable exception, see Grzywacz et al., 2007, and for earlier sociological accounts, see Horobin, 1957; Tunstall, 1962). Yet, despite the attention given to the potential for positive spillover of individual-level factors, even among psychologists the clear direction of associations between work and family, for example, Eby et al. (2005) found almost three times the number of studies focusing on the unfavourable effects of one sphere on the relationship between community and workplace in our case that resonates with Cunnison’s (1966) earlier garment factory study