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The Work/Life Collision: What Work is Doing to Australians and What to Do about It

Marian Baird, Barbara Pocock

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The work/life collision Mapping labour, households and care Work is reconfiguring our communities Mother wars: the market meets sacred motherhood The hidden costs of work: love, intimacy and work Long hours: family unfriendliness at work Short hours: choice and security at work Caring for those who depend on us Combining work and life: the role of leave Countering the collision: what we can do now Bibliography/ Appendix

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Key concepts: Work (physics), Collision, Project commissioning, Publishing, Sociology, Political science, Computer security, Engineering