Working at Home: Statistical Evidence for Seven Key Hypotheses

Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, Annie Phizacklea and Sally Walters
Additional contact information
Alan Felstead: University of Leicester
Nick Jewson: University of Leicester
Annie Phizacklea: University of Warwick
Sally Walters: University of Leicester

Work, Employment & Society, 2001, vol. 15, issue 2, 215-231

Abstract: It is frequently suggested that working at home will be the future of work for many people in the UK and that trends in this direction are already well underway. This paper examines these claims by analysing data from the Labour Force Survey which has, at various times, asked questions about the location of work. Seven key hypotheses are identified, including issues surrounding the extent and growth of working at home, reliance on information and communication technology, prevalence of low pay, average pay rates, gender issues, ethnic minority participation and household composition. The results paint a variegated and complex picture which suggests that those who work at home do not comprise a homogeneous group. The paper in particular highlights differences between non-manual and manual workers, and those who work mainly, partially and sometimes at home.

Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170122118922 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:woemps:v:15:y:2001:i:2:p:215-231

DOI: 10.1177/09500170122118922

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Work, Employment & Society from British Sociological Association
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().