Handbook of Families and Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Author:   D. Russell Crane ,  Jeffrey E. Hill
Publisher:   University Press of America
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Pages:   478
Publication Date:   16 July 2009
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Author:   D. Russell Crane ,  Jeffrey E. Hill
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.796kg
ISBN:  

9780761844358


ISBN 10:   076184435
Pages:   478
Publication Date:   16 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editors' Introduction by E. Jeffrey Hill and M. Russell Crane Part 1: Exploring the Work-Family Interface Job Demands, Spousal Support, and Work-Family Balance: A Daily Analysis of the Work-Family Interface Working Families Under Stress: Socially Toxic Time Cages and Convoys The Effects of Job Stress on the Family: One Size Does Not Fit All How Family-Supportive Work Environments and Work-Supportive Home Environments Can Reduce Work-Family Conflict and Enhance Facilitation Reducing Conceptual Confusion: Clarifying the Positive Side of Work and Family The Intersection of Work and Family Demands and Resources: Linking Mechanisms and Boundary-Spanning Strategies Work and Family Health in a Global Context When Employees Must Choose Between Work and Family: Application of Conservation of Resources Theory Part 2: Focus on Flexible Work Arrangements Workplace Flexibility: Implications for Worker Health and Families Flexibility and Control: Does One Necessarily Bring the Other? Flexible Work Arrangements: Help or Hype? Part 3: Working Fathers, Working Mothers, Working Spouses, Working Grandparents Work and Family Conditions that Give Rise to Fathers' Knowledge of Children's Daily Activities What Gives When Mothers Are Employed? Parental Time Allocation in Dual-Earner and Single-Earner Two-Parent Families Maternal Employment and Child Development Mothers' Shiftwork: Effects on Mothers, Fathers, and Children To Work and To Love: Bi-directional Relationships between Job Conditions and Marriage The Interaction between Marital Relationships and Retirement Parental Employment and Child Development: Variation by Child, Family, and Job Characteristics Generation and Gender in the Workplace: A New Generation at Work Living through Work; Working through Life Work-Family Facilitation: What Does It Look Like

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This book is essential reading for researchers, policy-makers and students interested in understanding the state-of-knowledge on issues relating to balancing work and families. It covers key issues and includes contributions from a wide set of disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, business, medicine and family studies. I highly recommend it.--Christopher J. Ruhm, Ph.D.


The conference that generated the chapters in this volume was one of the most stimulating I have attended in a long time. The range and caliber of the authors is outstanding, and the topics they address are at the core of the work-family literature. I'm honored to have been included.--Shelley M. MacDermid, Ph.D.


Crane and Hill have tapped the best minds to create an integrated perspective of contemporary work and family life. Thoughtful conceptual pieces bring clear focus to pressing and emerging issues in the field. Cutting edge research provides needed data for making sense of the complex interconnections between work and family. Insightful discussion of programmatic and policy alternatives provide concrete solutions that work for both families and employers. Collectively, the ideas in this eclectic volume provide useful tools for researchers, advocates, and practitioners alike. -- Joseph G. Grzywacz, Ph.D. The Handbook of Families and Work is a wonderful resource for anyone seeking to understand work and family issues. Many of the best and brightest researchers are contributors, and the coverage is breath-taking. The work deals with issues ranging from the meaning of flexibility and balance, to health, working time and productivity, and ranges across continents, generations, gender and diverse family types. Throughout, the authors pay keen attention to the simple yet fundamental question of how we can make this a better world for all. A must-read! -- Robert Drago, Ph.D. The Handbook of Families and Work makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the interconnections between work and family life. Leading work-family scholars present several perspectives, which serve as frameworks for empirical studies of mothers, fathers, and couples. These studies reveal the usefulness of the perspectives and increase our knowledge of the conditions under which today's families are able to coordinate their work and family lives. This comprehensive interdisciplinary approach will help researchers and practitioners increase the ability of organizations and families integrate work and family life. -- Patricia Voydanoff The Handbook of Families and Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives lives up to its ambitious title. Editors Crane and Hill have assembled top-flight scholars who examine a remarkable range of work-family topics from psychological, sociological, and management vantage points. This is truly an impressive volume. -- Jeffrey Greenhaus, Ph.D. Crane and Hill have assembled a treasure trove of work-family researchers as contributors to this remarkably useful volume. They offer a rich picture of the latest work-family theory and research through an impressive breadth of disciplinary lenses. This volume clearly illuminates the complex web of interconnections between work and family life. It's a must for the serious work-family scholar. -- Stewart Friedman, Ph.D. The editors have assembled an outstanding array of interdisciplinary work-family researchers as contributors to their Handbook. Furthermore, the breadth of topics covers both traditional areas of inquiry, as well as extends to some of the cutting-edge topics of relevance to the work-family field. -- Leslie B. Hammer, Ph.D. This book is essential reading for researchers, policy-makers and students interested in understanding the state-of-knowledge on issues relating to balancing work and families. It covers key issues and includes contributions from a wide set of disciplines--including economics, sociology, psychology, business, medicine and family studies. I highly recommend it. -- Christopher J. Ruhm, Ph.D. The conference that generated the chapters in this volume was one of the most stimulating I have attended in a long time. The range and caliber of the authors is outstanding, and the topics they address are at the core of the work-family literature. I'm honored to have been included. -- Shelley M. MacDermid, Ph.D. Whereas most work-family collections focus on the work side of the equation, these essays place more emphasis on paid work on family life... Its breadth will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and practitioners and serve as a useful introduction and overview of the field for students... Recommended. Choice, April 2010


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D. Russell Crane is Director of the Comprehensive Clinic and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University. He recently received the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Cumulative Contributions to Marriage and Family Therapy Research Award. He is the author of Fundamentals of Marital Therapy, co-edited Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Handbook of Families and Poverty, and more than fifty scholarly articles and book chapters. E. Jeffrey Hill is Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. His research examines finding harmony between paid work and family life. He has authored more than forty scholarly articles and book chapters on this topic. Previously, he was a work and family subject matter expert at IBM, where he pioneered many flexible work options including: paternity leave, part-time employment, and telecommuting.

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