Work-life balance for transnational skilled workers in Sweden

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.2.0064

Greti-Iulia Ivana

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Abstract

In the context of globalisation, increased mobility and transnational travelling, long-distance friendships, romantic partnerships and family ties are becoming more and more common. Against this backdrop, this article focuses on highly skilled employees coming from Romania to Sweden and how they construct their work-life balance there. It analyses the work-life systems of highly skilled migrants in relation both to their co-present and long-distance bonds and overreliance on work networks of contacts, as well as investigating the relation between a particular work-life balance and highly skilled transnational workers' adoption of serial or circular migration. In doing so, this research asks how the work-life balance of highly skilled migrants can be understood from a life-course standpoint. The originality of this article comes from the interest in the work-life of transnational workers of both genders and of different family configurations, when most research on the topic of work-life balance still focuses almost exclusively on women and tensions between professional demands and traditional family lives.

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瑞典跨国技术工人的工作与生活平衡

在全球化的背景下，流动性和跨国旅行的增加，长途友谊，浪漫的伙伴关系和家庭关系变得越来越普遍。在此背景下，本文主要关注从罗马尼亚到瑞典的高技能员工，以及他们如何在那里建立工作与生活的平衡。它分析了高技术移民的工作-生活系统与他们共同存在和远距离联系以及过度依赖工作联系网络的关系，并调查了特定的工作-生活平衡与高技术跨国工人采用连续或循环迁移之间的关系。在此过程中，本研究询问如何从生命历程的角度来理解高技能移民的工作与生活平衡。当大多数关于工作与生活平衡的研究几乎只关注女性以及职业需求与传统家庭生活之间的紧张关系时，这篇文章的独创性来自于对男女跨国工人的工作与生活的兴趣。

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations

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期刊介绍： Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation aims to: -Provide a single home for articles which specifically address issues relating to the changing international division of labour and the restructuring of work in a global knowledge-based economy. -Bring together the results of empirical research, both qualitative and quantitative, with theoretical analyses in order to inform the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the restructuring of work, organisational structures and labour in a global context. -Be global in scope, with a particular emphasis on attracting contributions from developing countries as well as from Europe, North America and other developed regions. -Encourage a dialogue between university-based researchers and their counterparts in international and national government agencies, independent research institutes, trade unions and civil society as well as other policy makers. Subject to the requirements of scholarly peer review, it is open to submissions from contributors working outside the academic sphere and encourages an accessible style of writing in order to facilitate this goal. -Complement, rather than compete with, existing discipline-based journals. -Bring to the attention of English-speaking readers relevant articles originally published in other languages.