Contributor
Vannoy, Dana.
Imprint:New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1998.
Descriptionxi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME: 1. The need and challenge to better integrate work and family life in the 21st century / Paula J. Dubeck -- II. PRESENT REALITIES: SETTING THE STAGE: 2. Gender and the future of the family: implications for the postindustrial workplace / Kathleen Gerson -- 3. Downsizing the American dream: work and family at century's end / Michael Wallace -- 4. Toward a 24 hour economy: the U.S. experience and implications for the family / Harriet B. Presser -- 5. Race and the family values debate / Maxine Baca Zinn -- III. WORK AND FAMILY ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING CONTEXT: 6. Dominant and minority couples: an analysis of family economic well-being / Marilyn Fernandez, Kwang Chung Kim -- 7. Being a part-time manager: one way to combine family and career / Phyllis Hutton Raabe -- 8. Economic transition in a company town: the politics of work and possibility in postindustrial Rochester / Andrew J. Perrin -- 9. Negotiating parental involvement: finding time for children / Kerry J. Daly, Anna Dienhart -- IV. NEW CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: 10. Working mothers, welfare mothers: implications for children in the 21st century / Toby L. Parcel -- 11. Can all children learn to read at grade-level by the end of the third grade? / George Farkas, Jim Fischer, Ralph Dosher, Keven Vicknair -- 12. Occupational constraints on women's entry into management / David J. Maume, Jr. -- 13. Employer-based health insurance in a changing economy / Lisa A. Cubbins -- 14. The impact of family caregiving to the elderly on the American workplace: who is affected and what is being done? / Judy Singleton -- V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: 15. Problems and prospects for more effective integration of work and family in the 21st century / Dana Vannoy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
