working families
The work-family discussion tends to be very focused on middle-class professionals and on the US. Here’s some links to new resources that broaden that perspective:
- Ruth Marcus had a nice Mother’s Day column in the Washington Post about the lack of work-life flexibility for people not in white collar professional jobs. It’s based on a report from the Center on WorkLife Law (Joan Williams’ group), called "One Sick Child Away from Being Fired."
- Jody Heymann has a new book out, Forgotten Families, that looks at work and family issues in an international perspective. Mother Jones interviewed her, and CLASP has an audioconference with her up.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
In case it’s not on your radar yet, Elizabeth Warren and her students maintain a blog about issues affecting the middle class at http://warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/ Lots of interesting stuff about bankruptcy law, home prices, health care, and other economic issues.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
That report was facinating and heart-breaking – I posted about it too with a hat tip to you.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:08 am
You want to broaden the discussion out of the US, here is a very interesting article about how in Israel people have more children, and wealthier have more than less wealthy children. Author suggests it’s social support/workplace flexibility and noticing that people like one’s self have three or four, but that institutional rules which make it easier are important, too (same article posted to 11d as well, since it seems to fit in with discussion there)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1154526026305&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull