Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy by Bookman, Ann

Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415935883)

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Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy by Bookman, Ann

Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

$66.99
Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy by Bookman, Ann

Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

$66.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ann Bookman
ISBN-10: 0415935881
ISBN-13: 9780415935883
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2003
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.32w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1924
Library Journal 12/22/2003
By Ann Bookman
By Ann Bookman
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Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a social anthropologist and author of a number of publications on women's work, work and family issues, unionization, and family policy. 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 is co-editor of Women and the Politics ofEmpowerment.

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