ISBN:
9780739117408
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (343 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class : Reports from the Field
DDC:
306.3/60973
Keywords:
Middle class families -- United States
;
Work and family -- United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class explores the dynamics of the modern American family and how they have adapted to the changing economy and culture. Contributors from a variety of disciplines redefine the concept of the ""model American family"" and provide well-researched insight into what the new standards for judging family life and its functionality will be
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Changing Landscapes of Work and Family Lara Descartes and Elizabeth Rudd; Part I: Intersections of Work and Family; 2 Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good Person in the Northern Plains Tom Fricke; 3 Kitchen Conferences and Garage Cubicles: The Merger of Home and Work in a 24-7 Global Economy Alesia F. Montgomery; 4 ""We Pass the Baby Off at the Factory Gates"": Work and Family in the Manufacturing Midwest Elizabeth Rudd and Lawrence S. Root
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Work-Family Divide for Low-Income African Americans Alford A. Young, Jr.6 American Dreaming: Refugees from Corporate Work Seek the Good Life Brian A. Hoey; 7 Patrolling the Boundaries of Childhood in Middle-Class ""Ruburbia"" Lara Descartes and Conrad P. Kottak; Part II: The (Not So) Standard North American Family; 8 Gay Family Values: Gay Co-Father Families in Straight Communities Diana M. Pash; 9 Black Women Have Always Worked: Is There a Work-Family Conflict Among the Black Middle Class? Riché Jeneen Daniel Barnes
Description / Table of Contents:
10 ""It's Like Arming Them"": African American Mothers' Views on Racial Socialization Erin N. Winkler11 Seeing the Baby in the Belly: Family and Kinship at the Ultrasound Scan Sallie Han; 12 Stabilizing Influence: Cultural Expectations of Fatherhood Todd L. Goodsell; 13 Focused on the Chinese American Family: Chinese Immigrant Churches and Childrearing Carolyn Chen; 14 Choosing Chastity: Redefining the Sexual Double Standard in the Language of Choice M. Eugenia Deerman; Afterword; 15 What Is a Family? Kathryn M. Dudley; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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