Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives
"Listen carefully! Herein lies a blueprint for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a postindustrial society. As well reasoned, carefully documented, and understated as it is, this small book is nothing less than a manifesto for change from one of the world's leading scholars of work and family issues. Standing on the foundation of a lifetime of solid research, Lotte Bailyn first shows us why our cultural assumptions about work no longer mesh with the lives we now lead. She then tells us how we can resolve the mismatch so that employers and employees both benefit. Breaking the Mold is an incisive, clearheaded, no-nonsense, and yet hopeful book about the role of work in our ever more complicated lives that rises above both the gender politics and the HR hype that often attend such discussions."—Stephen R. Barley, Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Stanford University"Lotte Bailyn, a towering innovator who helped put work/life issues on the map, has substantially rewritten her classic study so that it remains on the cutting edge. It is fresh, timely, and indispensable. Bailyn answers the key question of how to take a step beyond existing 'family-friendly policies' that are little used because they dead-end once-promising careers."—Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law"No one sees the all-powerful but sometimes invisible assumptions that shape the way Americans live and work more clearly than Lotte Bailyn. And no one describes these assumptions more articulately. If we are truly to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century and 'break the mold' so that we can be more successful at work and at home, we will have to heed the profound lessons in this remarkable book."—Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute