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“You are free to set your own hours”: Governing worker productivity and health through flexibility and resilience

Abstract

Flexible work is now endemic in modern economies. A growing literature both praises work flexibility for accommodating employees' needs and criticizes it for fueling contingency and job insecurity. Although studies have identified varied effects of flexible work, questions remain about the workplace dimensions of flexibility and how occupational workplace health is managed in these workplaces. This paper presents findings from a qualitative …

Authors

MacEachen E; Polzer J; Clarke J

Journal

Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 1019–1033

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

March 2008

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.013

ISSN

0277-9536