Download or read book Work/Life City Limits written by H. Jarvis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the social and environmental impact of this balancing act. The book features cross-national and inter-city comparative household level research, highlighting significant contradictions underpinning the nature of production, consumer expectation, work-life balance and urban environmental quality.