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Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community. In an important departure from the ongoing debate, she offers a new paradigm for the relationship between paid and unpaid work that could invigorate both family life and the quality of civil society.

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

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Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced... Read more

    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    Publication Date: 30/12/2003
    ISBN13: 9780415935883, 978-0415935883
    ISBN10: 0415935881

    Number of Pages: 318

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community. In an important departure from the ongoing debate, she offers a new paradigm for the relationship between paid and unpaid work that could invigorate both family life and the quality of civil society.

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