From 'home work' to 'home office work'?: Perpetuating discourses and use patterns of tele(home)work since the 1970s: historical and comparative social perspectives. (7th April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Homberg, Michael; Lükemann, Laura; Abendroth, Anja-Kristin
• Is Part Of: Work, organisation, labour & globalisation. Volume 17:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2023-04-07
• Subjects: flexible working -- telework -- work at home -- historical perspective -- comparative perspective -- gender inequalities; Work -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Division of labor -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Division of labor; Industrial relations; Labor; Work; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0074
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-6428

Abstract

Abstract : In contemporary debates, it is regularly overlooked that working from home already has a long history, while the phenomenon of 'tele(home) working' has even gained momentum since the 1970s, being increasingly technologically enabled and socially prepared. This article aims to identify the self-perpetuation of work from home by investigating phases, turning points and diverging temporalities of gender- and parenthood-specific discourses and use patterns of tele(home)work in Germany and the United Kingdom from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining historical and comparative social analysis.