The Work-Family Interface
An Introduction
- Stephen Sweet - Ithaca College, Boston College, Cornell University, State University of New York at Potsdam
March 2013 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In so doing, it shows both the strengths and the limitations of the approaches used in the U.S. This title is the only single source that summarizes the origins of work–family concerns, the diversities of needs and experiences, the impact of tensions on the family front, the consequences of tensions for employers, and different types of policies that can make meaningful differences not only in the lives of employees, but also potentially in job quality and national productivity.The Origins of Contemporary Work-Family Dilemmas
The Diversity of Work, Family, and Work-Family Arrangements
Individual and Family Frontiers: Personal Responses to Strained Schedules
Employer Frontiers: Organizational Intransigence and Promising Practices
Global Perspectives on the Work-Family Interface: International Comparative Analysis and Transnational Relationships
The Work-Family Interface as a National Priority
Further Exploration
Bibliography
About the Author
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