Working Families

Rosanna Hertz is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wellesley College and author of More Equal Than Others (California, 1990). Nancy L. Marshall is Senior Research Scientist at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

• Preface Introduction by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall PART ONE: Changing Families 1. The Rise of the Dual-Worker Family, 1963-1997, by Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen 2. Gendered Careers: A Life Course Perspective, by Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han3. Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife, by Lillian B. Rubin 4. Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor, by Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams PART TWO: Changing Workplaces 5. Family-Responsive Benefits and the Two-Tiered Labor Market, by Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L. Huffman 6. How Are Small Businesses Responding to Work and Family Issues? by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield 7. Part-Time Work Arrangements and the Corporation: A Dynamic Interaction, by Marcia Brumit Kropf 8. Toward a New View of Work and Family Life, by Ellen Galinsky 9. Work, Family, and Globalization: Broadening the Scope of Policy Analysis, by Harriet E. Gross PART THREE: Heartstrings and Pursestrings: Gendered Views from Within 10. Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work-Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace, by Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs 11. Workplace Policies and the Psychological Well-Being of First-Time Parents: The Case of Working-Class Families, by Heather-Lyn Haley, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and Amy Armenia 12. Work, Family, and Gender in Medicine: How Do Dual-Earners Decide Who Should Work Less? by Lena M. Lundgren, Jennifer Fleischer-Cooperman, Robert Schneider, and Therese Fitzgerald 13. From Babysitters to Child Care Providers: The Development of a Feminist Consciousness in Family Day Care Workers, by Heather M. Fitz Gibbon PART FOUR: Children's Experiences 14. Children, Work, and Family: Some Thoughts on "Mother Blame", by Anita Ilta Garey and Terry Arendell 15. The Kinderdult: The New Child Born to Conflict between Work and Family, by Diane Ehrensaft 16. Passing between the Worlds of Maid and Mistress: The Life Story of a Mexican Maid's Daughter, by Mary Romero 17. Eavesdropping Children, Adult Deals, and Cultures of Care, by Arlie Russell Hochschild 18. Pick-Up Time at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and Family from the Vantage Points of Children, by Barrie Thorne Contributors Index