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| Series Preface | |
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| Author Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins of Contemporary Work-Family Dilemmas | |
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| When Work Separated From Family: The Household Economy Transitions to the Industrial Economy | |
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| When Family and Work Were Defined as Separate Spheres: The Husband/Breadwinner-Wife/Homemaker Economy | |
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| Where We Are Now: Most Every Adult Should Work Outside the Home | |
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| Summary | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Diversity of Work, Family, and Work-Family Arrangements | |
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| Diverse Values and Preferences | |
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| Diverse Employment | |
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| Industry/Occupation/Job Variation | |
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| Compensation | |
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| Work Availability and Schedules | |
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| Risk and Insecurity | |
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| Diverse Families | |
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| Kinship Structures | |
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| Caregiving Structures | |
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| Families in the Life Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Individual and Family Frontiers: Personal Responses to Strained Schedules | |
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| Dominant Culture Metaphors of Connecting Work and Family | |
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| Work-Family Conflict, Spillover, and Segmentation | |
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| How People and Families Respond to Work-Family Conflict | |
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| Doing Without | |
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| Repace and Resequence | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Redefine Expectations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Employer Frontiers: Organizational Intransigence and Promising Practices | |
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| The Dual Agenda: Establishing Positive Outcomes for Families and Employers | |
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| Availability and Use of Employer-Provided Family-Responsive Policies and Practices | |
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| Process of Organizational Change: Moving From Awareness to Action | |
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| Rethinking the Scheduling of Work | |
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| Flexible Work in Multinational Organizations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Global Perspectives on the Work-Family Interface: International Comparative Analysis and Transnational Relationships | |
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| International Comparative Analysis of Work and Family Relationships | |
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| Intersections of Culture and Policy: National Approaches to Support Care Work | |
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| Family Leave | |
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| Financial Supports for Care Work | |
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| Entitlements That Help Facilitate Integration in the Paid Labor Force | |
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| Three Societal-Level Approaches to Reconciling Work-Family Strains | |
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| Emancipate Caregivers from the Need to Work Outside the Home | |
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| Emancipate Workers From Caregiving | |
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| Provide Dual Supports | |
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| Family Weil-Being in International Comparative Perspective | |
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| Transnational Concerns | |
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| Transnational Families | |
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| Summary | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Project | |
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| Work-Family Interface as a National Priority | |
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| What Governments Can Do | |
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| Making the Case and Understanding Resistance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Useful Concepts | |
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| Issues to Ponder | |
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| Mini Projects | |
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| Further Exploration | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |