Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce

by Christensen, Kathleen; Schneider, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780801475856
• ISBN10: 0801475856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions, in African-American history and influenced nearly every black leader of the nineteenth century, from Douglass to Du Bois.

Author Biography

Kathleen Christensen is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coeditor of Contingent Work. American Employment Relations in Transition, also from Cornell. Barbara Schneider is John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University and a Senior Fellow, NORC and the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of The AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Evidence of the Worker and Workplace Mismatch	p. 1
Twenty-First-Century Workers and Family Life
The Long Reach of the Job: Employment and Time for Family Life	p. 17
Multitasking among Working Families: A Strategy for Dealing with the Time Squeeze	p. 43
Coming Together at Dinner: A Study of Working Families	p. 57
The Misfit Between Old Workplaces and a New Workforce
Customizing Careers by Opting Out or Shifting Jobs: Dual-Earners Seeking Life-Course "Fit"	p. 73
Keeping Engaged Parents on the Road to Success	p. 95
Elderly Labor Supply: Work or Play?	p. 110
Workplace Flexibility: Voluntary Employer Practices in the United States
Employer-Provided Workplace Flexibility	p. 131
Will the Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Work Hour Reductions for Childcare?	p. 157
Workplace Flexibility for Federal Civilian Employees	p. 178
The Odd Disconnect: Our Family-Hostile Public Policy	p. 196
Workplace Flexibility: Practices from Abroad
Limiting Working Time and Supporting Flexibility for Employees: Public Policy Lessons from Europe	p. 223
Parents' Experiences of Flexible Work Arrangements in Changing European Workplaces	p. 245
Work Hours Mismatch in the United States and Australia	p. 262
Renewed Energy for Change: Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility in Australia	p. 276
Flexible Employment and the Introduction of Work-Life Balance Programs in Japan	p. 303
Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility: The State of Play in Japan	p. 317
Conclusions: Solving the Workplace/Workforce Mismatch	p. 337
Notes	p. 351
References	p. 365
Contributors	p. 393
Index	p. 399
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