The time divide : work, family, and gender inequality /

"In a panoramic survey, Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how family time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobs, Jerry A., 1955-
Other Authors: Gerson, Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Series:Family and public policy.
Subjects:
Work and family > United States.
Hours of labor > United States.
Professional employees > United States.
Women employees > United States.
Working class > United States.
Travail et familles > États-Unis.
Professionnels salariés > États-Unis.
Personnel féminin > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Hours of labor
Professional employees
Women employees
Work and family
Working class
Gezin.
Arbeidsverdeling.
Sekserol.
Ongelijkheid.
Arbeiders.
Arbeidstijd.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Trends in work, family, and leisure time. 1. Overworked Americans or the growth of leisure?
  • 2. Working time from the perspective of families
  • pt. II. Integrating work and family life. 3. Do Americans feel overworked?
  • 4. How work spills over into life
  • 5. The structure and culture of work
  • pt. III. Work, family, and social policy. 6. American workers in cross-national perspective / with Janet C. Gornick
  • 7. Bridging the time divide
  • 8. Where do we go from here?
  • Appendix: Supplementary tables.

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