Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138982865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Instead she embraces a plethora of small-scale initiatives, involving a maze of ad-hoc "partnerships" between businesses, unions, churches, non-profits, state and local governments and "grassroots" parent activists, which are almost as exhausting to read about as they would be to implement. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The silver lining, according to social anthropologist Bookman (Children, Families and Women's Work) is that informal networks of relatives, non-profit social
Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community. In an important departure from the ongoing debate, she offers a new paradigm for the relationship between paid and unpaid work that could invigorate both family life and the quality of civil society.
Bookman has held a variety of teaching and research positions and has also worked in government. As a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton administration, she served as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave. She