Weaving Work & Motherhood

Focusing on women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States, sociologist and work and family expert Garey analyzes what it means to be at once a mother who is employed and a worker with children.

List of contents

Acknowledgments 1. "Working Mothers" 2. Strategies of Being 3. "Calling the Shots": Voluntary Part-Time Workers 4. "Putting Your Feet in the Door": Involuntary Part-Time Workers 5. Motherhood on the Nightshift 6. Nine to Five: A Collection of Days 7. Sequencing: Patterns over the Life Course 8. Conclusion Notes References Index

Summary

Focuses on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers clerical workers, janitorial workers, nurses, and nurse's aids, this title analyzes what it means to be at once a mother who is employed and a worker with children.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Garey, Anita I. Garey, Anita Ilta Garey
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1999
• EAN: 9781566397001
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-700-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Women in the Political Economy; Women in the Political Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories