Journal article
“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