Forgotten Families

Jody Heymann M.D, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Project on Global Working Families. An Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, she is author of The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It (Basic Books, 2000) and Can Working Families Ever Win? (Beacon Press, 2002).

• 1. Dramatic Transformations ; 2. Who Cares for Preschool Children? ; 3. School-Age Children: Getting a Chance ; 4. Parents' Working Conditions and Children's Health ; 5. Economic and Gender Inequalities ; 6. Families that Work in Times of Crisis ; 7. Addressing the Burgeoning Problems ; Appendices ; Notes ; Acknowledgements ; Index

Exhaustive in scope, meticulous in detail, her book is a damning indictment of what has gone wrong during the race to the bottom between developing countries amid globalizing markets. The book is peppered with heartbreaking stories gleaned from surveys of more than 55,000 families, depicting a worldwide squalor in which children, if they survive infancy, are usually doomed to re-enact their parents' lives at the sweatshop.... this volume will become a valuable primary source for policy makers.