EBOOK: Hard Labour: The Sociology of ParenthoodMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16 dic 2004 - 256 páginas This innovative book examines changes in family practices and paid work in the 21st century. Focusing on highly qualified mothers who combine childcare with employment, it makes a valuable contribution to current debates. It also takes into account the views of fathers, making it a rounded study of family practice in the new millennium. Hard Labour puts forward some new and thought-provoking arguments about both mothers' and fathers' commitments to parenting and paid work. The first part of the book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and readable overview of the literature on motherhood, fatherhood, family practices, and women in employment. The second part draws on a qualitative study of the lives of twenty mothers and their husbands or partners, each of whom is educated to degree level or above, and has at least one child under five. This study considers key aspects of the family lives of the men and women interviewed, including:
Hard Labour is essential reading for students and academics in sociology, family policy, family studies, women’s or gender studies and the sociology of management/employment. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
PART 1 The Sociology of Parenting and Paid Work | 13 |
PART 2 Doing it All and having some of it | 95 |
Chapter 06 Baby you changed my life | 101 |
Chapter 07 A labour of love and a sound investment | 130 |
Chapter 08 Everything I do I do for you | 149 |
Chapter 09 Everyone is equal ? | 183 |
Chapter 10 My children must become our children | 206 |
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Back cover | 237 |