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Work Time is a sociological overview of the complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. The author examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor, to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? The book focuses on the US in a global context and explores...
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Taps into the quantitative and qualitative evidence gathered in the Women's Employment Study (WES), offering insights into the lives of women in an urban Michigan county who left welfare for work and the role their family decisions play in their labor market decisions. Describes the day-to-day struggles these women face and the reasons they tend to remain in low-wage, dead-end jobs.
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In the contentious debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women can decide if they work, while working-class women need to work. Yet, even after the recent economic crisis, middle-class women are more likely to work than working-class women. Damaske deflates the myth that financial needs dictate if women work, revealing that financial resources make it easier for women to remain at work and not easier to leave it....
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"Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of...
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A companion to The new American workplace, which is co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Center for Effective Organizations, this volume contains original articles on workplace issues in America today. Leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human resources contribute groundbreaking research, highlighting the relevance of these issues for private and public policy.
9) Work and family--allies or enemies?: what happens when business professionals confront life choices
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"Work and Family - Allies or Enemies? offers a fresh new lens for viewing the real struggles that business professionals face in their daily battle to find ways of "getting a life" and "having it all." Based on a pioneering study that surveyed more than 800 business professionals, this volume will help readers understand and deal with the effects of gender, professional culture, and social expectations on the evolving roles of men and women in crafting...
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