From ‘home work’ to ‘home office work’?: Perpetuating discourses and use patterns of tele(home) work since the 1970s: historical and comparative social perspectives

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-perp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation Labour & Globalisation, 2023, Vol.17 (1), p.74-116
Hauptverfasser: Homberg, Michael, Lükemann, Laura, Abendroth, Anja-Kristin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1745-641X
1745-6428
1745-6428
DOI:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0074