Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy

by Jody Heymann

Book Overview

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey data from more than 55,000 families spanning five continents,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156595
• ISBN13: 9780195156591
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"