Ann Bookman

Starting in Our Own Backyards (eBook, ePUB)

How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges the view espoused in works like Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone that civic commitment is in declineProvides practical solutions for the problems facing America's working parents in the tradition of Arlie Hochschild's The Time Bind and Juliet Schor's The Overworked American

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135950613
• Artikelnr.: 38255906

Autorenporträt

Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a social anthropologist and author of a number of publications on women's work, work and family issues, unionization, and family policy. Bookman has held a variety of teaching and research positions and has also worked in government. As a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton administration, she served as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave. She is co-editor of Women and the Politics of Empowerment.