Wired to the World, Chained to the Home : Telework in Daily Life.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Wired to the World, Chained to the Home -- 1 Telework As Restructured Work -- 2 Profiling the Teleworker: Contextualizing Telework -- 3 Working at Home and Being at Home: Blurred Boundaries -- 4 A Strategy of a Dispensable Workforce: Telework in Canada -- 5 Localizing the Networked Economy: A Vancouver Case Study -- 6 "I Don't Have a Home, I Live in My Office": Transformations in the Spaces of Daily Life -- 7 Convergence: Telework As Everywhere, Every Time -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix A California Study on the Social and Environmental Impact of Working at Home -- Appendix B Canadian Telework and Home- Based Employment Survey -- Appendix C Respondent Occupations, California Study -- Appendix D Respondent Occupations, Canadian Survey -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.