ISBN:
9780520926035
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052092603X
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0585391645
,
9780585391649
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 389 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Working families
DDC:
306.360973
Keywords:
Dual-career families United States
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Work and family United States
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Children of working parents United States
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Children of working parents
;
Dual-career families
;
Work and family
;
Work and family
;
Dual-career families
;
Children of working parents
;
Electronic books United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Children of working parents
;
Dual-career families
;
Work and family
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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