Book
Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy
(2004)
Abstract
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. 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.
Keywords
- Boston,
- Massachusetts,
- working parents,
- middle class families,
- work
Disciplines
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
0415935881
Citation Information
Ann Bookman. Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy. New York(2004) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ann_bookman/2/