Inventing the Working Parent (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2023

0262546108 / 9780262546102

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Paperback. The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century-and how the concepts of "family-friendly" work culture and "work-life balance" came to be.The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century-and how the concepts of "family-friendly" work culture and "work-life balance" came to be.Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the middle-class, dual-income household, we have entered a new era in the history of everyday life: the era of the working parent. In Inventing the Working Parent, Sarah E. Stoller charts the politics that shaped the creation of the phenomenon of working parenthood in Britain as it arose out of a new culture of work.Stoller begins with the first sustained efforts by feminists to mobilize politically on behalf of working parents in the late 1970s and concludes in the context of an emerging national political agenda for working families with the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. She explores how and why the notion of working parenthood emerged as a powerful new political claim and identity category and addresses how feminists used the concept of working parenthood to advocate for new organizational policies and practices. Lastly, Stoller shows how neoliberal capitalism under Margaret Thatcher and subsequent New Labour governments made a family's ability to survive on one income nearly impossible-with significant consequences for individual experience, the gendered division of labor, and intimate life. "Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Inventing the Working Parent (Paperback)
Author
Sarah E. Stoller
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Publication year
2023
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new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0262546108
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9780262546102

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