04529nam 2200733 450 991079108090332120230810005531.00-8014-6949-X1-322-52299-50-8014-6950-310.7591/9780801469503(CKB)2550000001192964(OCoLC)864358290(CaPaEBR)ebrary10787127(SSID)ssj0001047772(PQKBManifestationID)12421155(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047772(PQKBWorkID)11160217(PQKB)10294426(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510081(MiAaPQ)EBC3138529(OCoLC)966938684(MdBmJHUP)muse51969(DE-B1597)478558(OCoLC)979833667(DE-B1597)9780801469503(Au-PeEL)EBL3138529(CaPaEBR)ebr10787127(CaONFJC)MIL683581(EXLCZ)99255000000119296420131107d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrUnfinished business paid family leave in California and the future of U.S. work-family policy /Ruth Milkman, RuthEileen AppelbaumIthaca, New York ;New York :Cornell University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (166 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-7895-2 0-8014-5238-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction: The Case for Paid Family Leave --2. The Politics of Family Leave, Past and Present --3. Challenges of Legislative Implementation --4. Paid Family Leave and California Business --5. The Reproduction of Inequality --6. Conclusions and Future Challenges --Methodological Appendix --Notes --References --IndexUnfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum analyze in detail the effect of the state's landmark paid family leave on employers and workers. They also explore the implications of California's decade-long experience with paid family leave for the nation, which is engaged in ongoing debate about work-family policies.Milkman and Appelbaum recount the process by which California workers and their allies built a coalition to win passage of paid family leave in the state legislature, and lay out the lessons for advocates in other states and localities, as well as the nation. Because paid leave enjoys extensive popular support across the political spectrum, campaigns for such laws have an excellent chance of success if some basic preconditions are met. Do paid family leave and similar programs impose significant costs and burdens on employers? Business interests argue that they do and routinely oppose any and all legislative initiatives in this area. Once the program took effect in California, this book shows, large majorities of employers themselves reported that its impact on productivity, profitability, and performance was negligible or positive.Unfinished Business demonstrates that the California program is well managed and easy to access, but that awareness of its existence remains limited. Moreover, those who need the program's benefits most urgently-low-wage workers, young workers, immigrants, and disadvantaged minorities-are least likely to know about it. As a result, the long-standing pattern of inequality in access to paid leave has remained largely intact.Family leaveCaliforniaFamily leaveUnited StatesWork and familyGovernment policyCaliforniaWork and familyGovernment policyUnited StatesFamily leaveFamily leaveWork and familyGovernment policyWork and familyGovernment policy331.25/763Milkman Ruth1954-1506160Appelbaum Eileen1940-1532953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791080903321Unfinished business3779558UNINA