The constraints of a ‘work–life balance’ approach: an international perspective

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Notes

1 WLB also becomes linked to certain policies (e.g. relating to flexible working) but at the same time obscures other policies and practices such as those associated with the spread of neoliberalism as we discuss later, and Fleetwood (this issue) also notes.

2 This study was funded by the Ford Foundation with a grant to the Institute of Family and Environmental Research, directed by Rhona Rapoport.

3 There is less discussion of these issues as they affect the majority of the population, in the rural economy).

4 See, e.g., Layard (2005) who shows that beyond a certain threshold of economic development, more money is not reflected in higher levels of happiness.