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The part-time paradox : time norms, professional lives, family, and gender
- Title
- The part-time paradox : time norms, professional lives, family, and gender / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein [and others].
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | KF300 .P37 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs.
- Description
- viii, 179 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Using case studies of legal professionals, this book highlights not only the negative sides, but also the coping strategies utilised to overcome the part-time paradox.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-164) and index.
- Contents
- The Social Meaning of Professional Time -- The Social Context of Time Deviance -- Time and the Practices and Rituals of the Legal Profession -- Cultural Perspectives on Part-Time Work and Its Consequences -- Part-Time Work as Deviance: Stigmatization and Its Consequences -- Perspectives on Accommodating Part-Time Work -- Calculating the Economics of Part-Time Work -- Career Issues and Problems in Part-Time Legal Work -- Mobility -- Job Security and Insecurity: The Vulnerability of Part-Time Positions -- Part-Time Status and Rank Discrepancies: Status Incongruity -- Commitment and Professional Status -- Collegiality -- Justice and Fairness -- The Family and Part-Time Work -- Parents, Children, Child Care, and the Division of Labor in the Family -- Technology -- Technology and Part-Time Lawyering.
- ISBN
- 0415921236
- 9780415921237
- 0415921244
- 9780415921244
- LCCN
- 98020948
- OCLC
- ocm39033366
- 39033366
- SCSB-799198
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library