There's no place like work
Subtitle: how business, government, and our obsession with work have driven parents from home
By: Brian C. Robertson
Publisher: Spence Pub. Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dallas, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781890626181
Subjects: Children of working parents; Working mothers; Government policy; Psychology; Work and family
Description: Confronting the abudant evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Mr. Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The rise of feminism seems the obvious answer, but until the 1960s, the women's movement zealously fought against mother's being forced to abandon their homes for wages. The important change, Mr. Robertson discovers, has been society's view of work, which we once saw as a means of supporting family life but now pursue as an avenue of self-fulfillment. -- from fly leaf.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.