Paid to party [electronic resource] : working time and emotion in direct home sales / Jamie L. Mullaney and Janet Hinson Shope.
2011
HF5438.25 .M846 2011eb
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Paid to party [electronic resource] : working time and emotion in direct home sales / Jamie L. Mullaney and Janet Hinson Shope.
Author
Mullaney, Jamie L.
ISBN
9780813552156 (electronic book)
9780813551838
9780813551845
9780813551838
9780813551845
Publication Details
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 193 p.)
Call Number
HF5438.25 .M846 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
381/.14
Summary
"On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls' night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products--from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing how women navigate work and family. Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how Direct Home Sales promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Shope, Janet Hinson, 1961-
Series
Families in focus.
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Paid to party.
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Table of Contents
Creating a feel-good business: negotiating the work-family pieces
From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover
Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work
The girls' night out: social time and obligation
Let the games begin: the importance of playing along
Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.
From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover
Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work
The girls' night out: social time and obligation
Let the games begin: the importance of playing along
Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.