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The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
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2008
Summary
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established scholars contributed chapters based on their original field research, following each chapter with a personal reflection on doing field work. The volume concludes with an original essay by Kathryn Dudley, an anthropologist who has spent decades studying the intersections of work, family, and class in American culture. As a whole, the volume highlights how culture shapes family life amid shifting social and economic landscapes.
The authors, working in the fields of anthropology and sociology, observed daily life at workplaces and in homes, interviewing people about their work, their children, and their ideas about what makes a good family. They report on their fieldwork in essays rich with the detail of everyday life, revealing the fascinating diversity of American middle-class families through chapters about gay co-father families, African American stay-at-home mothers, first-time fathers, rural refugees from corporate America, well-off white mothers, Taiwanese immigrant churches, the fetal ultrasound, and more.
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class is an excellent text for classes in anthropology, sociology, American culture, family studies, work and family, and gender studies.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1739-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3430-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
331
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
1 Changing Landscapes of Work and Family Lara Descartes and Elizabeth Rudd No access Pages 1 - 14
2 Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good Person in the Northern Plains Tom Fricke No access
3 Kitchen Conferences and Garage Cubicles: The Merger of Home and Work in a 24-7 Global Economy Alesia F. Montgomery No access
4 "We Pass the Baby Off at the Factory Gates": Work and Family in the Manufacturing Midwest Elizabeth Rudd and Lawrence S. Root No access
5 The Work-Family Divide for Low-Income African Americans Alford A. Young, Jr. No access
6 American Dreaming: Refugees from Corporate Work Seek the Good Life Brian A. Hoey No access
7 Patrolling the Boundaries of Childhood in Middle-Class "Ruburbia" Lara Descartes and Conrad P. Kottak No access
8 Gay Family Values: Gay Co-Father Families in Straight Communities Diana M. Pash No access
9 Black Women Have Always Worked: Is There a Work-Family Conflict Among the Black Middle Class? Riché Jeneen Daniel Barnes No access
10 "It's Like Arming Them": African American Mothers' Views on Racial Socialization Erin N. Winkler No access
11 Seeing the Baby in the Belly: Family and Kinship at the Ultrasound Scan Sallie Han No access
12 Stabilizing Influence: Cultural Expectations of Fatherhood Todd L. Goodsell No access
13 Focused on the Chinese American Family: Chinese Immigrant Churches and Childrearing Carolyn Chen No access
14 Choosing Chastity: Redefining the Sexual Double Standard in the Language of Choice M. Eugenia Deerman No access
