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The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force
Sheila B. Kamerman
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Description for The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force
Hardback. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Clean copy
As the American workforce has changed in recent years to accommodate an increasing number of working parents, the workplace itself must also adapt. Sheila Kamerman and Alfred Kahn, two of the most respected authorities on work and the American family, explore in this study the ways in which the workplace has responded to social change. They examine innovations in the workplace as well as enduring concerns--fringe benefits, day care and other services, and employers' policies at the workplace. And, they assess employers' adequacy in assisting parents of young children to manage simultaneously their work and family roles. In doing so, ... Read more
As the American workforce has changed in recent years to accommodate an increasing number of working parents, the workplace itself must also adapt. Sheila Kamerman and Alfred Kahn, two of the most respected authorities on work and the American family, explore in this study the ways in which the workplace has responded to social change. They examine innovations in the workplace as well as enduring concerns--fringe benefits, day care and other services, and employers' policies at the workplace. And, they assess employers' adequacy in assisting parents of young children to manage simultaneously their work and family roles. In doing so, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
329
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231064804
SKU
KEX0201953
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Ref
99-1
About Sheila B. Kamerman
Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn are professors of social policy and planning at the Columbia University School of Social Work, and codirectors of the Cross-National Studies Research Program. They are the authors of many books including Child Care, Family Benefits, and Working Parents and Maternity Policies and Working Women (with Paul Kingston), both published by Columbia University Press. ... Read more
Reviews for The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force
An important and useful book, for all who are concerned with the urgent need to restructure the workplace... [It] is essential to the second stage of the women's movement. Betty Friedan