Starting in Our Own Backyards How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy 1st Edition by Ann Bookman ISBN 0415935881 9780415935883

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ISBN 10: 0415935881 
ISBN 13: 9780415935883
Author: Ann Bookman

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.

Starting in Our Own Backyards How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy 1st Table of contents:

Part I Work, Family, and Community in the New Economy
Chapter 1 New Terrain for Work and Family Making the Community Connection
The Personal is Intellectual…and Political
Paid Work and Community Involvement
When Women Left the Kitchen and the Cradle: Debates on Work and Family
Bringing in the Community: A New Look at the Backyard
What Would De Tocqueville Say Now? Debates on Civil Society
Working Families in the New Economy
Introducing the Companies
Introducing the Families
Chapter 2 How Friendly is the “Family– Friendly” Workplace? A View from the Biotech Industry
Jessica’s Story
Biotech: A Knowledge Industry in the New Economy
Biotech in Massachusetts
Is the Massachusetts Biotech Industry Family-Friendly?
Considering “Community Relations”
Three Biotech Firms
Inside the Biotech Workplace
Crystal’s Story
Beth’s Story
From Personnel Manual to Practice
Parental Leave: Affordability and Attachment
Caring for Sick Children: Not a Day Off
Flexibility For Whom?
“Family Values” or Valuing Families
Creating a Family-Friendly Workplace: A Shared Project
Chapter 3 All in the Family It’s not a Private Affair
Beyond the Time Deficit
Working Against the Odds
The Daily Work-Family Routine
Sharing Tasks Versus Sharing Responsibility
Deciding to Have One Parent (MOM) Stay Home
The Myth of the Stay-At-Home Mom
Being Mom and Dad When You’re Just Mom
Extended Family Time: Easing the Burden?
The Unresponsive Workplace
Work Spillover: OR “Just a Minute, I’m Finishing my E-Mail”
“I’ Like to Work Part-Time, But…”
Family Strategies: The First Line of Defense
Gender Inequality in the Family, Revisited
Beyond Private Solutions
Part II From Family Connections to Community Involvement
Chapter 4 Community as a Starting Point Place and Participation
Companies Move, But Families Don’t Always Follow
When Major Decisions are not Negotiated
What is Community?
The Empirical Community
Place Matters: Exploring the Community Context
The Deep Divide: The Distance Between Home and Work
Choosing a Community of Residence: Opportunities and Constraints
Onward and Upward?
The Pastures of Suburbia are not Always Greener
Insiders or Outsiders in Suburbia: Who Belongs?
Places Where “Everyone Knows Your Name”
The Persistence of “Roots”
Possibilities for Change
Defining the Family-Friendly Community
What Use is a Community Index?
Quality of Life and Community Resources: Building Reciprocity
Chapter 5 More than Roads and Bridges
Mapping Work-Family-Community Connections
Map Construction: Process and Content
What Do the Maps Tell Us?
The Extended Family is Alive and Well
“A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name”
Keeping the Faith
TGIM—”Thank God It’s Monday”
Looking at Community Through a Spatial Lens
Looking at Community Through a Life Course Lens
Family Assets: Diverse Communities, Common Connections
Chapter 6 Childcare and other Building Blocks of Civil Society
Do Middle-Class Families Face a Care Crisis?
Mother Care or Other Care?
The Search for Childcare
The Affordability Issue
Relatives and Backup Care
The Quality of Care Relationships
The Parent-Provider Relationship: Almost Like Family
Negotiating Closeness and Differences
Finding a New Purpose in Retirement
The Benefits of Relative Care
Family Care and Community Connections
Necessity is the Mother of Connection: Care for School-Age Children
Community-Based Programs for Families
Elder Care: An Emerging Family Care Issue
An Extended Family Approach to Community Involvement
Family Care and Civil Society
Chapter 7 The PTA is not the Problem
Is the 21ST Century the Age of Parental Anxiety?
A History Lesson
New Questions, New Answers
Homework Help
Volunteering at School
Where’s the Welcome Mat?
Parent Power: What Does it Take?
The Old Model of Parent Involvement
New Models of Parental Involvement
No More Milk and Cookies: Working Parents as After-School Activists
The Work of “Hometown Heroes”
School Involvement and Civil Society
The Parent Connection
Learning New Subjects
Chapter 8 Not By Bread Alone
Faith and Community in The 21ST Century
Searching Beyond the Secular
Reshaping Family Religious Traditions
Creating New Traditions
Can Working Moms Be Lay Leaders Too?
Gender and Religious Involvement
Can Faith-Based Institutions Erase Inequality?
The Clergy Perspective
Volunteers for the Annual Church Supper?
Finding Meaning Beyond Paid Work
Religious Involvement in a Workaholic World
Faith in Each Other: Building Religious Involvement and Community
What Can Religious Institutions Do For Working Families?
Part III Investing in Community: Everybody’s Business
Chapter 9 The Trials of a Full-Time Working Mom Or, How I Became a Part-Time Worker and a Part-Time Community Activist
A Story From the Front Lines of Parent Enpowerment
Community Involvement and Work Redesign
Parent-To-Parent Support: Friends and Organizers
It Takes a Family, a Neighborhood, and a Workplace to Create a Community Caregiver
The Third Shift: Caring for Community is Not Just “Women’s Work”
Rethinking Gender Roles and Workplace Norms
Impediments in the Workplace
From Community Connections to Community Involvement
Chapter 10 From Backyards to Corporate Boardrooms and Beyond All Stakeholders Welcome
What Can Business Do?
Some Businesses Make Good Neighbors
Labor/Management Partnerships For Working Families
Promoting Community Involvement
What Can Government Do?
Government as Model Employer: Building Community Capacity
Public Policies For Working Families
The Bully Pulpit: From Rhetoric to Action
What Can Community-Based Organizations Do?
Working Families and Community Services
Redesigning Communities
“Liveable” Communities: An alternative To “Nimbyism”
What Can Working Families Themselves Do?
On the Home Front
The Potential of Parent Power
Power in Numbers, Roots in Community
Chapter 11 The Call of Community Vocation and Avocation
Community in Their Ownterms
Responding to the Call of Community
A New Town Commons
Employers Who Invest in Community
Labor Unions Willing to Experiment
Government Taking a Universal Approach
Tools For Building Livable Communities
Cross-Sector Solutions
“The Heartless World”
Appendix One Research Design and Methodology
Site Selection and Firm Orientation
Mapping Interviews
Family-Community Network Interviews
Participant Observation
Community Profiles and Secondary Data Analysis

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