RRP: $42.95
Format: A5, 264pp
ISBN: 978-1-877399-28-2

Publication date:
19 September 2007
Available from:
Dunmore Publishing
PO Box 25080
Wellington
(04) 472 2705
books@dunmore.co.nz
www.dunmore.co.nz

Managing Mayhem:
Work-Life Balance in New Zealand

Edited by Marilyn Waring and Christa Fouché: Managing Mayhem: Work-Life Balance in New Zealand explores the reality of what work-life balance means in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

Waring and Fouché have brought together recent research that reveals the complexities and nuances that people grapple with as they seek to balance paid work, unpaid work and leisure in a way that maintains their quality of life.

It exposes the hidden issues for, among others, women who are Mãori, Chinese, of the Pacific, who are unpaid caregivers, older women parenting for the second time, or who are establishing businesses or living portfolio lives. Importantly it also examines the experiences of men, who until now have been underrepresented in the debate.

Each of the contributors adds richly textured material to the emerging mosaic of knowledge about work-life balance in Aotearoa-New Zealand.