Introduction to the Special Issue “Parental work and family/child well-being”

Pollmann‐Schult, Matthias; Li, Jianghong

doi:10.20377/jfr-422

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“…This translated into a higher incidence of precariousness and inequalities: today, being in paid work does no longer protect from poverty (Bonoli, 2007;Marx & Nolan, 2014). The polarisation between well-paid, stable jobs on the one hand, and lowpaid, non-standard, non-permanent jobs on the other (Palier & Thelen, 2010) have consequences for individuals (different levels of social protection, access to health insurance, career perspectives) (Emmenegger et al, 2012), for child rearing and children's well-being (Pollmann-Schult & Li, 2020;Siippainen et al, 2023) and for society at large (unemployment rates, poverty and inwork poverty, rising inequality) (Marx & Nolan, 2014).…”

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Hidden behind closed doors: Non‐standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe

Giordano,

Meraviglia

2024

Int J Soc Welfare

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Non‐standard employment (NSE) is well‐documented in the domestic sector in all European countries. The precariousness and poor working conditions of this sector reflect in a labour force composed by the most vulnerable layers of the labour market, namely, migrant women. This article analyses how and to what extent a macro‐level factor, that is, the gender regime (resulting from the interplay of gender equality and gendered social norms) interacts with micro‐level individual and occupational characteristics to shape the prevalence of NSE in the domestic sector in Europe. We use the 2019 EU‐LFS data and run a set of logistic regression analyses. Our results show that NSE is a defining feature of domestic sector, and that migrant women are at a higher risk of being in this type of employment, especially in destination countries where gender equality is relatively lower and expectations concerning care and family responsibilities are more traditional.

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Hidden behind closed doors: Non‐standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe

Giordano,

Meraviglia

2024

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Work–family conflict has been a traditional way of interpreting work–family reconciliation. Research on non‐standard work schedules and their effects on families has centred on questions of parental processes, such as the division of labour between parents or parent–child relationships, and parental and child well‐being, including health and socio‐emotional well‐being (Pollmann‐Schult & Li, 2020). Many studies have shown that non‐standard working times have negative consequences for the couple's relationship, the couple's work–family reconciliation or child development.…”

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“…Many studies have shown that non‐standard working times have negative consequences for the couple's relationship, the couple's work–family reconciliation or child development. Other studies, however, have also demonstrated beneficial aspects of working non‐standard hours, such as the above‐mentioned more equal division of unpaid work between parents (for an overview, see e.g., Pollmann‐Schult & Li, 2020 or Grzyvacz, 2016). According to Pollmann‐Schult and Li et al (2020), family strategies can play an important role in understanding the either negative or positive impacts of parental non‐standard work schedules on family well‐being.…”

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The puzzles of daily life: The temporal orders of families when parents have non‐standard work schedules

2022

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This article investigates the temporal orders of families as the daily rhythms and schedules when one or both parents work non-standard hours. Our focus is especially on the often asynchronous times of non-standard work, on one hand, and of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and other institutions, on the other hand. The data consist of semi-structured qualitative interviews of Finnish parents with a four-year-old child. The results show that the asynchronous times generated by non-standard working hours cause a wide range of collisions both in relation to childcare and ECEC and to the division of labour between parents. The parents are 'wrestling', not only because of the asynchrony of their own work but also because of the 'pedagogical rhythm' created by ECEC professionals. However, the parents also find ways to manage time, facilitated by workplace flexibility or spousal negotiations over the sharing of responsibilities.

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About the (un)acceptability of working in the presence of the child: parents’ constructions of the child and corresponding parental responsibilities

Mikats

2024

Österreich Z Soziol

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The work-family literature suggests a contradictory relationship between working parenthood and (good) childhood, with disruptive or neglected children on the one side and absent or overburdened parents on the other. While the child occupies a complicated space in this relation, their position is rarely examined. Against this background, I explore the position of the child by turning to children’s co-presence during parents’ performance of home-based paid work and ask how parents construct the child and their corresponding parental responsibilities. Following a practice-theoretical framework, I approach parents’ accounts as practices of representation in which the boundaries of what was perceived as (not) acceptable ways of doing family and work were sketched out.For this purpose, I analysed 25 qualitative interviews with and about home-based working parents in the Austrian creative industries with positional maps. The parents had between one and three children in kindergarten or primary school.Parents’ constructions of the child were complex and ambiguous, as were the corresponding parental responsibilities. Meeting the child’s needs and not harming the child emerged as a common ground, yet the parents’ commitment to paid work was not questioned. Conversely, home-based work was seen as a way to meet both work and care demands. These findings suggest that home-based work may bridge ideas of good childhood and working parenthood. The paper contributes to an understanding of work and family that goes beyond simple dualism and offers new insights into parental home-based work, which remains relevant in the post-pandemic era.

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Introduction to the Special Issue “Parental work and family/child well-being”

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Hidden behind closed doors: Non‐standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe

Hidden behind closed doors: Non‐standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe

The puzzles of daily life: The temporal orders of families when parents have non‐standard work schedules

About the (un)acceptability of working in the presence of the child: parents’ constructions of the child and corresponding parental responsibilities

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