Szydlik
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| Title / Titel | Flexibilisation: Consequences for Work and Family | ||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Flexibilisierung: Folgen für Arbeit und Familie | ||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The labour market currently finds itself in a state of flux. The old image of secure traditional working relations has been challenged. Flexible people should be professionally and geographically mobile, partake in lifelong learning, react quickly to changing work situations and think more in terms of projects than fixed jobs. What are the consequences of the flexibilisation of labour for private lifestyles, for partner and generation relationships, for fertility, and for the ability to reconcile one’s job with childcare or care of the elderly? Important research questions also emerge in regard to social structure: Who is especially affected by flexibilisation, who can deal with it in a particularly productive way, for whom does it result in more opportunities than risks? Who are the losers of flexibilisation and who are the winners? To what extent can some population groups assert their own flexibility demands on the labour market? What consequences emerge for social inequalities generated by the labour market? What subjective self-evaluations can be discerned in terms of integration or exclusion? And what is the relationship between flexibilisation, family and social structure? Following lectures and seminars on the topic, a two-day conference was held in May 2006 at the University of Zurich. Selected presentations have been published in a book. | ||
| Publications / Publikationen | Szydlik, Marc (Hrsg.) 2008. Flexibilisierung - Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. | ||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | flexible work, labour market, family, social stratification | ||
| Project leadership and contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte |
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Others Hochschulstiftung der Universität Zürich |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2005 to Dec 2007 |