Work–life advantage: sustaining regional learning and innovation
本书论证工作生活平衡是维持区域学习与创新的关键因素，批判区域发展文献忽视性别和社会再生产，基于都柏林和剑桥的雇主调查及IT从业者访谈数据。
This fascinating book offers a well-grounded and clearly stated argument that work–life balance is a crucial element in the mix of factors that sustain regional learning and innovation, making a significant contribution to the literature that has burgeoned on this topic in recent decades. In the process, it develops a profound critique of the literature on regional development as largely gender-blind and overly focused on production networks to the neglect of processes of social reproduction. The book is based on extensive research around Dublin, Ireland and Cambridge, UK—including surveys of 150 employers, over 60 interviews with IT professionals and additional interviews with informants from unions, development agencies and other organisations before the crisis of 2008; supplemented by online surveys with IT workers in late 2008 and 2010. While the data were gathered during a particular era of financial boom and bust, they do not appear dated—at least partly because the IT sector suffered less than many others and more generally because issues of gendering and work–life balance in IT have been persistent across a variety of technology and other business cycles.