Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

by Bookman, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780203497364
• ISBN10: 0203497368
• Copyright: 2004-01-30
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Challenges the view espoused in works like Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone that civic commitment is in declineProvides practical solutions for the problems facing America's working parents in the tradition of Arlie Hochschild's The Time Bind and Juliet Schor's The Overworked American

Author Biography

Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center at the Sloan School of Management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Engine That Could

Work, Family and Community in the New Economy

New Terrain for Work and Family: Making the Community Connection

How Friendly Is the "Family-Friendly Workplace"?: A Look at the Biotech Industry

All In the Family: It's not a Private Affair

From Family Connections to Community Involvement

Community As A Starting Point: Place and Participation

More Than Roads and Bridges

Childcare and Other Building Blocks of Civil Society

The PTA Is Not The Problem

Not By Bread Alone

Investing in Community: Everybody's Business

The Trials of a Full-time Working Mom: Or How I Became a Part-time Worker and a Part-time Community Activist

From Backyards to Corporate Boardrooms and Beyond: All Stakeholders Welcome

The Call of Community: Vocation and Avocation

Methodology

The Family Friendly Community

Index Index

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