Shared Work - Valued Care: New Norms for Organizing Market Work and Unpaid Ca... - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0944826962 ISBN 13: 9780944826966

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For a century or more in the United States until the mid-1970s, the husband-as breadwinner and wife-as-homemaker system governed social attitudes toward paid work and unpaid care. But with the rapid increase in the paid employment of mothers, that model has been supplanted in favor of a system in which all workers - male or female - can hold a full-time job provided they conform to employers' notions of a worker unencumbered by domestic responsibilities. This model of organizing paid and unpaid work has left most American working families anxious about their ability to care adequately for their children and aging relatives, stressed by the demands of work, and starved for time.

Shared Work - Valued Care examines practices in Japan, Australia, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy to gain insights into how work and care responsibilities might realistically be reorganized to better meet the needs of working families.

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Eileen Appelbaum is research director at the Economic Policy Institute. Her research focuses on work hours and flexible schedules and their consequences for employees and organizations, and she is the co-author (with Bailey, Berg, and Kalleberg) of Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off.

Thomas Bailey is the George and Abbey O'Neil Professor of Economics of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an expert on the economics of education, organizational innovation in the workplace, and the educational and training implications of changes in the workplace. His latest book is Workbased Learning and Education Reform

Peter Berg is an assistant professor at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. His areas of research include organizational change in the United States and Germany, high performance work systems, comparative employment relations, and worker training. He is the editor of the book Creating Competitive Capacity.

Arne L. Kalleberg is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research focuses on organizations' increasing use of flexible staffing arrangements, workers' attitudes toward the changing employment relationship, and the nature and consequences of flexibility in work organizations. He is the co-editor of Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0944826962
• ISBN 13: 9780944826966
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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