Work, family, health, and well-being [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, Rosalind Berkowitz King

• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, NJ, : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (596 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/61/0973
• Soggetto topico: Families - United States; Work and family - United States; Social change - United States; Sex discrimination in employment - United States; Public health - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BianchiSuzanne M CasperLynne M KingRosalind Berkowitz
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Complex Connections: A Multidisciplinary Look at Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being Research; PART I Time, Work, and Family; 2 Time Allocation in Families; 3 Embracing Complexity: Work Schedules and Family Life in a 24/7 Economy; 4 Work, Family, and Children's Time: Implications for Youth; 5 Timely and Timeless: Working Parents and Their Children; PART II The "Work" in Work and Family; 6 Work and Family Life: The Perspective of Employers; 7 Workplace Policies and Practices to Support Work and Families ; 8 Work-Family Culture: Key to Reducing Workforce-Workplace Mismatch?9 Filling the Gap by Redesigning Work; 10 Can Employers Be Good Neighbors? Redesigning the Workplace-Community Interface; 11 Government Policies as External Influences on Work-Family Trade-Offs; PART III Disciplinary Perspectives in the Study of Work and Family; 12 Psychological Perspectives on the Work-Family Interface; 13 An Economic Perspective on Work, Family, and Well-Being; 14 Anthropology and the Workplace-Workforce Mismatch; 15 Sociological Perspectives on Work and Family ; 16 Work and Family Research: A Public Policy PerspectivePART IV Parental Employment and Outcomes for Children; 17 A Psychological Perspective on the Health and Well-Being Consequences of Parental Employment; 18 Work-Family Mismatch Through a Child Developmental Lens; 19 When Do We Know What We Think We Know? Determining Causality; 20 Work-Family Mismatch and Child Health and Well-Being: A Review of the Economics Research; 21 How Well Do Government and Employer Policies Support Working Parents?; PART V Gender and Empoyment, Caregiving and Health ; 22 Gender Perspectives on Work and Personal Life Research23 Gender, Work, and Family Well-Being in the United States; 24 Effects of Marriage, Divorce, and Widowhood on Health; 25 Work and Family Issues for Midlife Women; PART VI Occupations, Workplace Settings, and Health of Families; 26 The Impact of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses on Families; 27 Labor Markets and Health: A Social Epidemiological View; 28 A Systematic Approach to the Assessment of the Psychological Work Environment and the Associations With Family-Work Conflict ; PART VII Low-Income Families and Work, Care, Health, and Well-Being29 Work in the Working Class: Challenges Facing Families; 30 Nonstandard Work and Child-Care Needs of Low-Income Parents; 31 Health and Mothers' Employment in Low-Income Families; 32 Global Transformations in Work and Family; PART VIII Conclusion; 33 Forging the Future in Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being Research; About the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being grew out of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 on ""Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being"" sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The text considers multiple dimensions of health and well-being for workers and their families, children, and communities. Investigations into the socioeconomic gradient in health within broad occupational categories have raised important questions about the role of specific working conditions versus the role of conditions of employment such as wages and level of
• Titolo autorizzato: Work, family, health, and well-being
• ISBN: 1-282-32688-0; 9786612326882; 1-4106-1352-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450730303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II