Where’s the community in community, work and family? A community-based capabilities approach

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Figure 1. Community defined as local relationships, local policies and locality.

Note that the arrows in in the figure do not represent causal relationships as they do in positivist social science. In line with Robertson (2016, 86), we argue ‘that the capability approach is not neatly pigeon holed as positivist or anti-positivist, interpretivist or objectivist. The researcher therefore must seek a philosophical approach that transcends these dichotomies’.

Figure 2. A communities-based understanding of work–life capabilities adapted from Hobson (2014), Hoogenboom et al. (2015), and Robeyns (2017).

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