Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children / / edited by Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth

• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.85/0973
• Soggetto topico: Work and family - United States; Working poor - United States; Working poor - Government policy - United States; Poor children - Services for - United States
• Altri autori: CrouterAnn C BoothAlan <1935->
• Note generali: "Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on 'Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children', held at the Pennsylvania State University on October 10-11, 2003"--P. ix.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The low-wage labor market: trends and policy implications -- Labor market and family trends and public policy responses -- Beyond low wages: underemployment in America -- Changing families, shifting economic fortunes, and meeting basic needs -- Employment in a 24/7 economy: challenges for the family -- The time and timing of work: unique challenges facing low-income families -- Exploring process and control in families working nonstandard schedules -- Using daily diaries to assess temporal friction between work and family -- Childcare for low-income families: problems and promises -- The crisis of care -- Childcare as a work support, a child-focused intervention, and a job -- Childcare for low-income families: problems and promise -- "Making a way out of no way": how mother meet basic family needs while moving from welfare to work -- Should promoting marriage be the next stage of welfare reform? -- Making our way together: collaboration in the move from welfare to work -- The growing compliance burden for recipients of public assistance -- Balancing work and family: problems and solutions for low-income families.
• Sommario/riassunto: The area of work and family is a hot topic in the social sciences and appeals to scholars in a wide range of disciplines. There are few edited volumes in this area, however, and this may be the only one that focuses on low-income families--a particularly important group in this era of welfare-to-work policy. Interdisciplinary in nature, the volume brings together contributors from the fields of psychology, social work, sociology, demography, economics, human development and family studies, and public policy. It presents important work-family topics from the point of view of low-income families.
• Titolo autorizzato: Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children
• ISBN: 1-4106-0975-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809704103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Penn State University family issues symposia series.