Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hertz, Rosanna.
• Marshall, Nancy L.

Description

x, 389 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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 volume provides an informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States.

Subject

• Arbeit, ..
• Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
• Dual-career families > United States
• Work and family > United States
• Children of working parents > United States
• Children of working parents
• Dual-career families
• Work and family
• Arbeid
• Gezin
• Tweeverdieners
• dual career couple
• family
• family responsibilities
• employment
• women workers
• men
• trend
• social change
• labour force participation
• employment status
• ethnic group
• career development
• unpaid work
• child care
• child care facilities
• parental leave
• family benefit
• occupational pension scheme
• management attitude
• small enterprise
• part time employment
• arrangement of working time
• labour flexibility
• working mother
• physician
• community participation
• children
• attitude
• statistical table
• ménage à double carrière
• famille
• responsabilités familiales
• emploi
• travailleuses
• hommes
• tendance
• changement social
• taux d'activité
• statut dans l'emploi
• groupe ethnique
• organisation de carrière
• travail non rémunéré
• soins aux enfants
• services de garde d'enfants
• congé parental
• prestations familiales
• régime de pension professionnel
• attitude patronale
• petite entreprise
• emploi à temps partiel
• aménagement du temps de travail
• flexibilité du travail
• mère exerçant un emploi
• médecin
• participation de la communauté
• enfants
• tableau statistique
• pareja con doble carrera
• familia
• responsabilidades familiares
• empleo
• trabajadoras
• hombres
• tendencia
• cambio social
• tasa de actividad de mano de obra
• situación ocupacional
• grupo étnico
• desarrollo de la carrera
• trabajo no remunerado
• cuidado infantil
• guardería infantil
• licencia parental
• prestaciones familiares
• régimen de pensión profesional
• actitud de la dirección
• pequeña empresa
• empleo a tiempo parcial
• ordenamiento del tiempo de trabajo
• flexibilidad del trabajo
• trabajadora madre de familia
• médico
• participación comunitaria
• niños
• actitud
• cuadros estadísticos
• United States
• USA
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• graph.
• graphique.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Rise of the dual-earner family, 1963-1997 / Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen -- Gendered careers: a life-course perspective / Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han -- Getting younger while getting older: family-building at midlife / Lillian B. Rubin -- Men's family work: child-centered fathering and the sharing of domestic labor / Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams -- Family-responsive benefits and the two-tiered labor market / Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L. Huffman -- How are small businesses responding to work and family issues? / Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield -- Part-time work arrangements and the corporation: a dynamic interaction / Marcia Brumit Kropf -- Toward a new view of work and family life / Ellen Galinsky -- Work, family, and globalization: broadening the scope of policy analysis / Harriet E. Gross -- 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 -- 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 -- Work, family, and gender in medicine: how do dual-earners decide who should work less? / Lena M. Lundgren [and others] -- From baby-sitters to child care providers: the development of a feminist consciousness in family day care workers / Heather M. Fitz Gibbon -- Children, work, and family: some thoughts on "mother-blame" / Anita Ilta Garey and Terry Arendell -- Kinderdult: the new child born to conflict between work and family / Diane Ehrensaft -- Passing between the worlds of maid and mistress: the life of a Mexican maid's daughter / Mary Romero -- Eavesdropping children, adult deals, and cultures of care / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Pick-up time at Oakdale Elementary School: work and family from the vantage points of children / Barrie Thorne.

ISBN

• 0520222229
• 9780520222229
• 0520226496
• 9780520226494

LCCN

2001027445

OCLC

• ocm46421934
• 46421934
• SCSB-14707638

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library