WORK AND FAMILY POLICY by Stephen Sweet (Editor) ( 9780415520140 )

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WORK AND FAMILY POLICY
INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

By:

Stephen Sweet (Editor)

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0415520142

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9780415520140

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 June, 2012

Pages:

152

Synopsis:

Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that societies respond to these concerns with policy. This volume examines these concerns by focusing on cross-national variation in structural/cultural arrangements. Consistent support is found in respect to the prospects of expanding resources for working families both in the opportunity to provide care, as well as to remain integrated in the workforce. However, the studies in this volume offer qualifiers, explaining why some effects are not as strong as might be hoped and why effects are sometimes restricted to particular classifications of workers or families. It is apparent that, when different societies implement similar policies, they do not necessarily do so with the same intended outcomes, and usage is mediated by how policies are received by employers and workers. The chapters in this book speak to the merits of international comparative analysis in identifying the strategies, challenges and benefits of providing resources to workers and their families.This book was originally published as a special issue of Community, Work & Family.

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