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Work and Family in America: Growing Tensions between Employment Policy and a Transformed Workforce

In: America at Work

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  • Ellen Ernst Kossek

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About 30 years ago, the Work in America (1973) report noted the countervailing trends of growing numbers of women juggling work and family (W-F) coupled with ambivalence over societal support of domestic and caregiving work. Kanter (1977) articulated the “myth of separate worlds” between work and family—the notion that workplaces often are designed as if workers do not have families that compete for their attention and identities during working time.

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  • Ellen Ernst Kossek, 2006. "Work and Family in America: Growing Tensions between Employment Policy and a Transformed Workforce," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Edward E. Lawler & James O’Toole (ed.), America at Work, chapter 4, pages 53-71, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-8359-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403983596_4
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    1. Vaishali Dhingra & Rakesh K. Mudgal & Manish Dhingra, 2017. "Safe and Healthy Work Environment: A Study of Artisans of Indian Metalware Handicraft Industry," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 42(2), pages 152-166, May.
    2. Haixiao Chen & Ho Kwong Kwan & Jie Xin, 2022. "Is behaving unethically for organizations a mixed blessing? A dual-pathway model for the work-to-family spillover effects of unethical pro-organizational behavior," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 39(4), pages 1535-1560, December.

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