| Description |
xxv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. About time -- The waving window -- Managed values and long days -- An angel of an idea -- Family values and reversed worlds -- pt. 2. From executive suite to factory floor -- Giving at the office -- The administrative mother -- "All my friends are worker bees": being a part-time professional -- "I'm still married": work as an escape value -- "Catching up on the soaps": male pioneers in the culture of time -- What if the boss says no? -- "I want them to grow up to be good single moms" -- The overextended family -- Overtime hounds -- pt. 3. Implications and alternatives -- The third shift --Evading the time bind -- Making time |
| Summary |
Arlie Russell Hochschild spent three summers at a Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, and others. What she found was startling: Though every mother and nearly every father said "family comes first," few of these working parents questioned their long hours or took the company up on chances for flextime, paternity leave, or other "family friendly" policies. Why not? It seems the roles of home and work had reversed: work was offering stimulation, guidance, and a sense of belonging, while home had become the place in which there was too much to do in too little time |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York :Metropolitan Books, 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index |
| Subject |
Dual-career families -- United States.
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Work and family -- United States.
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Sex role -- United States.
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Working mothers -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0805066438 |
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