| Description |
xii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Changing landscapes of work and family / Lara Descartes, Elizabeth Rudd -- Working selves, moral selves: crafting the good person in the northern plains / Tom Fricke -- Kitchen conferences and garage cubicles: the merger of home and work in a 24-7 global economy / Alesia F. Montgomery -- "We pass the baby off at the factory gates": work and family in the manufacturing midwest / Elizabeth Rudd, Lawrence S. Root -- The work-family divide for low-income African Americans / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- American dreaming: refugees from corporate work seek the good life / Brian A. Hoey -- Patrolling the boundaries of childhood in middle-class "Ruburbia" / Lara Descartes, Conrad P. Kottak -- Gay family values: gay co-father families in straight communities / Diana M. Pash -- Black women have always worked: is there a work-family conflict among the black middle class? / Riché Jeneen, Daniel Barnes -- "It's like arming them": African American mothers' views on racial socialization / Erin N. Winkler -- Seeing the baby in the belly: family and kinship at the ultrasound scan / Sallie Han -- Stabilizing influence: cultural expectations of fatherhood / Todd L. Goodsell -- Focused on the Chinese American family: Chinese immigrant churches and childrearing / Carolyn Chen -- Choosing chastity: redefining the sexual double standard in the language of choice / M. Eugenia Deerman -- What Is a Family? / Kathryn M. Dudley. |
| Subject |
Work and family -- United States.
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Work and family. |
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United States. |
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Middle class families -- United States.
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Middle class families. |
| Added Author |
Rudd, Elizabeth, 1963-
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Descartes, Lara, 1968-
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| Added Title |
Work and family in the American middle class . |
| ISBN |
9780739117408 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780739117392 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739117394 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739117408 paperback alkaline paper |
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