Work & family
Subtitle: research informing policy
By: Toby L. Parcel, Daniel B. Cornfield, editors
Contributors: Parcel, Toby L; Cornfield, Daniel B
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Work and family; Women -- Employment; Work and family -- United States; Women -- Employment -- United States
Other titles: Work and family
Description: "Editors Toby Parcel and Daniel Cornfield draw on two major themes for this volume. First, that essential to an understanding of the interplay between work and family is an acknowledgment of the varied ways time influences work and family processes and outcomes. The editors and contributors look at time in both the macro historical sense as well as through examination of the more quotidian choices involved in balancing work and family.

Second, the editors consider the social policy implications that inhere in these essays. Contributors to Work and Family have been encouraged to think explicitly about how governmental policies, as well as those of individual firms, can be derived from their research." "This collection is suited to courses on work and occupations, family studies, organizations, and gender roles, and will be of interest to scholars in these areas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Work and family in women's lives in the German Democratic Republic / Helen Trapp; title: Public opinion and congressional action on work, family, and gender, 1945-1990 / Paul Burstein and Susan Wierzbicki; title: The juggling act; title: Do Americans feel overworked? comparing ideal and actual working time / Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson; title: Nonstandard employment schedules among American mothers : the relevance of marital stature / Amy G. Cox and Harriet B. Presser; title: Effects of public and private policies on working after childbirth / Sandra Hofferth; title: Returning to work : the impact of gender, family, and work on terminating a family or medical leave / Joanne C. Sandberg and Daniel B. Cornfield; title: Later in the life course; title: The effects of parental work and maternal nonemployment on children's reading and math achievement / Toby L. Parcel, Rebecca A. Nickoll, and Mikaela J. Dufur; title: Work-family orientations and attainments in the early life course / Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson and Jeylan T. Mortimer; title: Transmission of family values, work, and welfare among poor urban Black women / Robera Iverson and Naomi Farber