The neoliberal privation of risk and responsibility: the case of work-life balance and flexible working practices

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/918 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/918 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/918 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/04/14 2009-12-03 14:00:25 2019-01-23 09:52:06 2011-07-19 16:16:38 thesis show 0 Dixon Zachary University of Birmingham The neoliberal privation of risk and responsibility: the case of work-life balance and flexible working practices unpub HM 10col_socs Neoliberalism; work-life culture; critical realism Neoliberalism is both a political ideology and set of practices which facilitate the governing of individuals from a distance. This study identifies the privatisation of risk and responsibility as one of its key elements. Taking as its case-study the field of work-life balance (WLB) and flexible working practices in the UK, it traces the manifestation of this imperative within and across the levels of the state, employer and employee. Part I begins by conceptually examining the response of the British state to the ‘new social risk’ of WLB, and the construction by employers of the typical ‘flexible’ worker in relation to traditional notions of ‘work-life culture’. Part II provides an empirical examination of the theoretical framework. Extending the concept of work-life culture, findings are presented from a qualitative, critical case-study follow-up to the UK Government’s Third Work-Life Balance Employee Survey (2007). Contrary to official flexible working discourses, employee experience of the flexible working process at a ‘best practice’ Big Four accountancy firm is shown to not be ‘win-win’. Rather, such experiences are complex and double-edged – that is, infused with neoliberal notions of privatised risk and responsibility. New opportunities need to be seen alongside negative consequences, particularly stalled career advancement. 2009-12 2009-04 graduation eng uobscanned This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 295 University of Birmingham Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology d_ph na 2009-12 graduation