Enacting virtual connections between work and home

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-275

  Wajcman, Judy ^a   Rose, Emily ^b   Brown, Judith E ^c   Bittman, Michael ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

employees; Internet use; spillover; work life interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956118250     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1440783310365583     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2006) Pattern of Internet Access in Australia in 2006. Cat. No. 8146.0.55.001. Canberra, ABS.
2. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) (2007) Media and Communications in Australian Families 2007. Canberra: ACMA.
3. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) (2008a) ACMA Communications Report 2007-08. Canberra: ACMA.
4. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) (2008b) Telecommunications Today. Report 6: Internet Activity and Content. Canberra: ACMA.
5. Baxter, J., M. Gray, M. Alexander, L. Strazdins and M. Bittman (2007) Mothers and Fathers with Young Children: Paid Employment, Caring and Wellbeing. Canberra: Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
6. Bianchi, S.M., J.P. Robinson and M.A. Milkie (1996) Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
7. Bijker, W.E., T.P. Hughes and T.J. Pinch (eds) (1987) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Brannen, J. (2005) Time and the Negotiation of Work-Family Boundaries: Autonomy or Illusion?, Time & Society 14(1): 113-131.
9. Broom, D.H., R.M. D'Souza, L. Strazdins, P. Butterworth, R. Parslow and B. Rodgers (2006) The Lesser Evil: Bad Jobs or Unemployment? A Survey of Mid-Aged Australians, Social Science & Medicine 63: 575-86.
10. Castells, M. (2000) The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell.
11. Castells, M., M. Fernandez-Ardevol, J.L. Qui and A. Sey (2007) Mobile Comunication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. Chesley, N. (2005) Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress and Family Satisfaction, Journal of Marriage and Family 67(5): 1237-48.
13. Cockburn, C. (1992) The Circuit of Technology: Gender, Identity and Power, in R. Silverstone and E. Hirsch (eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. London and New York: Routledge.
14. Crompton, R. (2002) Employment, Flexible Working and the Family, British Journal of Sociology 53(4): 537-58.
15. Crouter, A.C. (1984) Spillover from Family to Work: The Neglected Side of the Work-Family Interface, Human Relations 37(6): 425-42.
16. D'Souza, R.M., L. Strazdins, M.S. Clements and D.H. Broom (2005) The Health Effects of Jobs: Status, Working Conditions, or Both?, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 29(3): 222-8.
17. Dex, S. and C. Smith (2002) The Nature and Pattern of Family-friendly Employment Policies in Britain. Bristol: Policy Press and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
18. DiMaggio, P., E. Hargittai, W.R. Neumann and J.P. Robinson (2001) Social Implications of the Internet, Annual Review of Sociology 27: 307-66.
19. Dutton, W.H. and E.J. Helsper (2007) The Internet in Britain: 2007. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute.
20. Edwards, J.R. and N.P. Rothbard (2000) Mechanisms Linking Work and Family: Clarifying the Relationship between Work and Family Constructs, Academy of Management Review 25(1): 178-99.
21. Ewing, S., J. Thomas and J. Schiessl (2008) The Internet in Australia: CCI Digital Futures Report. Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and Swinburne University of Technology.
22. Felstead, A., N. Jewson and S. Walters (2005) Changing Places of Work. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
23. Folbre, N. and M. Bittman (2004) Family Time: The Social Organisation of Care. London: Routledge.
24. Gershuny, J. (2003) Web Use and Net Nerds: A Neofunctionalist Analysis of the Impact of Information Technology in the Home, Social Forces 82(1): 141-68.
25. Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
26. Greenhaus, J.H. and N.J. Beutell (1985) Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles, Academy of Management Review 10(1): 76-88.
27. Harvey, D. (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell.
28. Hochschild, A.R. (1997) The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Metropolitan Press.
29. Katz, J.E. (ed.) (2003) Machines that Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
30. Kaufman-Scarborough, C. (2006) Time Use and the Impact of Technology: Examining Workspaces in the Home, Time & Society 15(1): 57-80.
31. Lewis, J. (2001) Restructuring Workplace Cultures: The Ultimate Work-Family Challenge?, Women in Management Review 16(1): 21-9.
32. Luff, P., J. Hindmarsh and C. Heath (eds) (2000) Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. MacKenzie, D. and J. Wajcman (eds) (1999) The Social Shaping of Technology. Buckingham: Open University Press.
34. Marshall, N.L. and R.C. Barnett (1993) Work-Family Strains and Gains Among Two-earner Couples, Journal of Community Psychology 21: 64-78.
35. Mazmanian, M., W.J. Orlikowski and J. Yates (2005) CrackBerrys: Exploring the Social Implications of Ubiquitous Wireless Email Devices, Working Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UTL (consulted September 2008): http://seeit.mit.edu/Publications/CrackBerrys.pdf.
36. McKie, L., S. Gregory and S. Bowlby (2002) The Temporal and Spatial Frameworks and Experiences of Caring and Working, Sociology 36(4): 897-924.
37. Nippert-Eng, C.E. (1995) Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
38. Orlikowski, W.J. (2007) Sociomaterial Practices: Exploring Technology at Work, Organization Studies 28(9): 1435-48.
39. Pinch, T.J. and W.E. Bijker (1984) The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other, Social Studies of Science 14(3): 399-441.
40. Pocock, B. (2003) The Work/Life Collision. Sydney: The Federation Press.
41. Pocock, B. (2006) The Labour Market Ate My Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future. Sydney: The Federation Press.
42. Pocock, B., N. Skinner and P. Williams (2007) The Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI), Labour and Industry 28: 749-72.
43. Robinson, J.P. and G. Godbey (1997) Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
44. Sheller, M. and J. Urry (2003) 'Mobile Transformations of Public and Private Life', Theory, Culture & Society 20(3): 107-25.
45. Strazdins, L., M.S. Clements, R.J. Korda, D.H. Broom and R.M. D'Souza (2006) Unsociable Work? Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Relationships, and Children's Well-being, Journal of Marriage and Family 68(2): 394-410.
46. Towers, I., L. Duxbury, C. Higgins and J. Thomas (2006) Time Thieves and Space Invaders: Technology, Work and the Organization, Journal of Organizational Change 19(5): 593-618.
47. Wajcman, J. (2002) Addressing Technological Change: The Challenge to Social Theory, Current Sociology 50(3): 347-63.
48. Wajcman, J. (2006) 'New Connections: Social Studies of Science and Technology and Studies of Work', Work, Employment and Society 20(4): 773-86.
49. Wajcman, J., M. Bittman and J.E. Brown (2009) Intimate Connections: The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work-Life Boundaries, in G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds) Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media. London: Routledge.
50. Wellman, B. (2001) Physical Place and Cyberspace: The Rise of Personalized Networking, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(2): 227-52.
51. White, M., S. Hill, P. McGovern, C. Mills and D. Smeaton (2003) High Performance Management Practices, Working Hours and Work-Life Balance, British Journal of Industrial Relations 41(2): 175-95.
52. Williams, P., B. Pocock and N. Skinner (2008) 'Clawing Back Time: Expansive Working Time and Implications for Work-Life Outcomes in Australian Workers', Work, Employment & Society 22(4): 737-48.
53. Willis, S. and B. Tranter (2006) Beyond the Digital Divide: Internet Diffusion and Inequality in Australia, Journal of Sociology 42(1): 43-59.
54. Zedeck, S. (1992) Work, Families and Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.