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There seems today to be a growing public interest in understanding the relationship between work and family. This is not incidental, but related to a general process of social change in modern industrial society, whereby both institutions are undergoing a fundamental transformation. In this process, which is deeply bound up with changes in the roles of men and women in society, traditional lines of demarcation between work and family are tending to break down. This has led to an increasing awareness that these two spheres of life, so often considered as separate and segregated, are in fact intimately connected, and that the whole structure of work is directly related to the family system.
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© 1988 Jane Lewis, Marilyn Porter and Mark Shrimpton
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Solheim, J. (1988). Coming Home to Work. In: Lewis, J., Porter, M., Shrimpton, M. (eds) Women, Work and Family in the British, Canadian and Norwegian Offshore Oilfields. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09048-8_6
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