What is the relationship between work and family in a world where
employment creates endless tensions for families and families
create endless tensions for the workplace? This collection of
reprinted and original articles broadens this discussion by
addressing issues from the perspectives of often neglected
populations: from white middle-class women with young children to
people of color, to poor families, to the new sorts of families
gays and lesbians are struggling to construct, to fathers, to older
children.
To discuss work and family is also to discuss gender. Ranging
from California's Silicon Valley to a remote fishing village in the
northeast, part one shows how new work arrangements have created
new expectations for what it means to be a woman or a man, and how
slow and uneven the pace of change can be. Nowhere are the tensions
of work and family more potent than around childcare. Part two
takes up these tensions, showing how various "solutions" to caring
for children of all ages (whether infants or teenagers) create new
problems. Parts three and four turn outward to show how the new
relationships between families and work are changing the
relationships between families and the communities in which they
live and generating new social policy dilemmas.
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