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978-0-7618-4435-8 • Paperback • July 2009 • $84.99 • (£65.00)
978-0-7618-4436-5 • eBook • May 2009 • $80.50 • (£62.00)
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.
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
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 formaking 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 canmake 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. Thisvolume 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.