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Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life

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Nippert-Eng has studied how people demarcate their work and personal lives in this lucid text. Some preserve a rigid separation, enforced above all by the home and workplace being physically separate. This can be reinforced by the wearing of different clothes, or otherwise changing one's appearance. Perhaps assisted by a workplace requiring a uniform, be this a mechanic's garb or a doctor's lab coat.

The book also explores how the demarcation can involve different eating and drinking habits. A working lunch these days might be alcohol-free, as opposed to a dinner with friends.

The book was written in 96. Since then, the continued increase in the usage of personal computers and associated technologies like wireless and broadband access, has led to a blurring of workplace and non-workplace for some of us. Exaceberated by the pervasive use of email and Instant Messaging. It would be interesting for her to update the book to reflect these changes.