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Book SynopsisIn Breaking the Mold Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them.
Trade ReviewIn the second edition of Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn presents a compelling case for moving away from restrictive assumptions of organizational life and creating a new set of assumptions to facilitated success at work and at home. Bailyn has revised and updated her short and immensely readable work in light of the political, social, and economic changes the country has undergone since the publication of the first edition in 1993, including a significant shift in the demographics of the workplace. The result is a timely and thoughtful look at how employers and employees today must reconsider the conditions of employment and the link between the public and private spheres in a changing world. Throughout the book, Bailyn uses well-integrated vignettes and case studies to illustrate how outmoded assumptions about work and life can negatively impact both employers and employees, and what those willing to rethink these assumptions can achieve.
-- Delaney Anderson * Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law *
Table of Contents1. Introduction: The World We Live In
Interlude I. Nancy Wright: Success?
2.Organizational Constraints: Defining the Road to Success
3. Individual Constraints: Occupational Demands on Private Life
4. Family as a Complicating Issue for Organizations
Interlude II. Elizabeth Gray: Failure?
5. Rethinking Commitment and Time
6. Rethinking Equity and Control
7. Pathways to Change
Interlude III. The Thompsons: Promise of Things to Come?
8. Envisioning the Future
