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The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class - Reports from the Field (Paperback)
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The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class - Reports from the Field (Paperback)
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This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class
American family and its near-constant state of transition. The
editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of
work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in
the United States. Emerging and established scholars contributed
chapters based on their original field research, following each
chapter with a personal reflection on doing field work. The volume
concludes with an original essay by Kathryn Dudley, an
anthropologist who has spent decades studying the intersections of
work, family, and class in American culture. As a whole, the volume
highlights how culture shapes family life amid shifting social and
economic landscapes. The authors, working in the fields of
anthropology and sociology, observed daily life at workplaces and
in homes, interviewing people about their work, their children, and
their ideas about what makes a good family. They report on their
fieldwork in essays rich with the detail of everyday life,
revealing the fascinating diversity of American middle-class
families through chapters about gay co-father families, African
American stay-at-home mothers, first-time fathers, rural refugees
from corporate America, well-off white mothers, Taiwanese immigrant
churches, the fetal ultrasound, and more. The Changing Landscape of
Work and Family in the American Middle Class is an excellent text
for classes in anthropology, sociology, American culture, family
studies, work and family, and gender studies.
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