Finding Time : : The Economics of Work-Life Conflict / / Heather Boushey.

Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barbecues to the blogosphere, workers across the United States are raising the same worried question: How can I get ahead at my job while making sure my family doesn’t fall behind?Heather Boushey argues that resolving...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 3 halftones, 9 line illustrations, 21 graphs, 10 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. Our Roots
  • II. Stalled: Today’s Middle Class
  • III. Stuck: Today’s Low- Income Families
  • IV. Soaring above and Sounding the Alarm: Today’s Professional Families
  • V. Thinking Like an Economist
  • VI. Here at Home: Paid Time off to Care
  • VII. There at Work: Scheduling Time
  • VIII. Care: When You Can’t Be at Home
  • IX. Fair: Finding the Right Path
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Data and Methods
  • Figure Sources
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index