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    Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life
    Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life
    Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life
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    Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life

    By Christena E. Nippert-Eng

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    Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In Home and Work, Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work.

    Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly "integrating" to those that are highly "segmenting," Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable sensitivity to the symbolic value of objects and actions, Nippert-Eng explores the meaning of clothing, wallets, lunches and vacations, and the places and ways in which we engage our family, friends, and co-workers. Commuting habits are also revealing, showing how we make the transition between home and work selves though ritualized behavior like hellos and goodbyes, the consumption of food, the way we dress, our choices of routes to and from work, and our listening, working, and sleeping habits during these journeys.

    The ways each of us manages time, space, and people not only reflect but reinforce lives that are more "integrating" or "segmenting" at any given time. In clarifying what we take for granted, this book will leave you thinking in different ways about your life and work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateJul 22, 2008
    ISBN9780226581477
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      Insightful slice between two important spheres in our life.

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