Working families : the transformation of the American home / edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall.

ISBN:

9780520926035

9780585391649

9781598750140

Title:

Working families : the transformation of the American home / edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall.

Author:

Hertz, Rosanna.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 389 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Introduction / Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall -- 1. The Rise of the Dual-Earner Family, 1963-1997 / Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen -- 2. Gendered Careers: A Life-Course Perspective / Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han -- 3. Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife / Lillian B. Rubin -- 4. Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor / Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams -- 5. Family-Responsive Benefits and the Two-Tiered Labor Market / Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L. Huffman -- 6. How Are Small Business Responding to Work and Family Issues? / Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield -- 7. Part-Time Work Arrangements and the Corporation: A Dynamic Interaction / Marcia Brumit Kropf -- 8. Toward a New View of Work and Family Life / Ellen Galinsky -- 9. Work, Family, and Globalization: Broadening the Scope of Policy Analysis / Harriet E. Gross -- 10. Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work and Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace / Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs -- 11. Workplace Policies and the Psychological Well-Being of First-Time Parents: The Case of Working-Class Families / Heather-Lyn Haley, Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Amy Armenia -- 12. Work, Family, and Gender in Medicine: How Do Dual-Earners Decide Who Should Work Less? / Lena M. Lundgren, Jennifer Fleischer-Cooperman and Robert Schneider / [and others] -- 13. From Baby-sisters to Child Care Providers: The Development of a Feminist Consciousness in Family Day Care Workers / Heather M. Fitz Gibbon -- 14. Children, Work, and Family: Some Thoughts on "Mother-Blame" / Anita Ilta Garey and Terry Arendell -- 15. The Kinderdult: The New Child Born to Conflict between Work and Family / Diane Ehrensaft -- 16. Passing between the Worlds of Maid and Mistress: The Life of a Mexican Maid's Daughter / Mary Romero -- 17. Eavesdropping Children, Adult Deals, and Cultures of Care / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 18. Pick-up Time at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and Family from the Vantage Points of Children / Barrie Thorne.

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Subject Term:

Dual-career families -- United States.

Work and family -- United States.

Children of working parents -- United States.

Added Author:

Hertz, Rosanna.

Marshall, Nancy L.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2001

Publication Information:

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Shelf Number	Material Type	Copy	Shelf Location	Status
306.360973 21	1:E-BOOK	1	1:ONLINE	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift--the rise of dual-income families--this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States. With selections written by leading scholars both inside and outside academia, Working Families offers intimate stories of how families manage and how children respond to the rigors of their parents' lives, as well as broad overviews developed from survey and census data. Taken together, these essays present an updated and integral view of the revolutionary changes in patterns of work and family life occurring today.

Using a broad range of methodologies, the contributors reach across gender, age, and class differences. They discuss working-class as well as affluent dual-career couples and work sites ranging from factories to offices. Straddling racial divides, the essays range from studies of white day care providers to a close look at a Mexican maid's daughter. The collection as a whole refutes the assumption that there is one normal type of family or workplace. These readable essays capture our attention as they build, cumulatively, to an absorbing picture of today's families and workplaces.