Work and Family: Research Informing Policy

The 'juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere.

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Researchers, scholars, and university-affiliated professors of sociology present results from nine studies addressing a provocative group of issues relating to the way and social policies influence work and family processes and outcomes. Topics include work and family in women's lives in the GDR; public opinion and congressional action on work, family, and gender from 1945-1990; comparing Americans' ideal and actual working time; the effects of parental work and maternal nonemployment on children's reading and math achievement; and the transmission of family values, work, and welfare among poor urban black women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Daniel B. Cornfield (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. His research on labor movements, immigration, organizational careers, and social relations in workplaces and labor markets has appeared in over 40 articles and several books, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, UN International Labor Office, Tennessee state government, and Metropolitan Government of Nashville-Davidson County, and has been translated into Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. A member of the the Sociological Research Association (national honorary society), he is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award from Vanderbilt University and the 2000 Excellence in Education Award (Sociology) of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly the Industrial Relations Research Association). He was elected Chair of the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work of the American Sociological Association, and appointed Chair of the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, a member of the editorial boards of several U.S., Latin American, and European scholarly journals, and a member of NSF, NIH, and European Union grant review panels.