Starting in Our Own Backyards

£41.99

Starting in Our Own Backyards

How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

Sociology

Author: Ann Bookman

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 1st June 2004

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781135950613


Book Overview

Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community.

Key Insights

In an important departure from the ongoing debate, she offers a new paradigm for the relationship between paid and unpaid work that could invigorate both family life and the quality of civil society.

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