Handbook of Families and Work

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by D. Russell Crane, Jeffrey E. Hill

Publication date:

16 July 2009

Length of book:

478 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761844358

This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of research. Topics include emerging work-family topics such as work-family facilitation and families and work in a global context. Special importance is given to differentiating the influence of workplace flexibility in making the relationship of work to family more positive. Other articles examine the role of gender and generation in understanding the family-work interface. This volume examines an often-overlooked topic in work-family literature: fathers and the influence of their work environment on the job to family relationships at home. New perspectives related to maternal employment are also presented. Whether you are a researcher, teacher, business professional, or student, Handbook of Families and Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is essential if you want the latest in work-family research.

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 for making 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.