Work-Life Policies | Contents

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Acknowledgments

Preface

PART I: Workplace Policies: Opportunities to Improve Health and Well-Being

1 Work and Family Employment Policy for a Transformed Labor Force:Current Trends and Themes
Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brian Distelberg

2 Elaborations on a Theme: Toward Understanding Work-Life Culture
Cynthia A. Thompson and David J. Prottas

3 Union Strategies for Work-Family Issues: Collective Bargaining and Public Policies
Netsy Firestein

4 The Design of Work as a Key Driver of Work-Life Flexibility for Professionals
Forrest Briscoe

PART II: Intervening in the Corporate Workplace

5 Learning from a Natural Experiment: Studying a Corporate Work-Time Policy Initiative
Phyllis Moen, Erin Kelly, and Kelly Chermack

6 The Tensions, Puzzles, and Dilemmas of Engaged Work-Family Scholarship
Shelley M. MacDermid, Mary Ann Remnet, and Colleen Pagnan

7 Corporate Work-Life Interventions: A Multilevel Perspective
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus

8 Energizing the Study of Work Policies
Anisa M. Zvonkovic

PART III: Making a Difference for Hourly Employees

9 Making a Difference for Hourly Employees
Susan J. Lambert

10 Flexibility for Whom? Inequality in Work-Life Policies and Practices
Ruth Milkman

11 Challenges Experienced by Vulnerable Hourly Workers: Issues to Consider in the Policy Conversation
Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús

12 Making a Difference for Hourly Workers: Considering Work-Life Policies in Social Context
Maureen Perry-Jenkins

PART IV: Future Directions for Research and Policies

13 Work-Life Policies: Future Directions for Research
Jennifer Glass

14 Policy Challenges and Opportunities for Workplace Flexibility: The State of Play
Chai R. Feldblum

15 Work-Life Policies: A "Both/And" Approach
Ellen Galinsky

16 Work-Life Policies: The Changing Landscape of Aging and Work
Michael A. Smyer and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

17 Limited, Mismatched, and Unequal: Work-Life Policies and Practices in the United States
Kelly D. Davis and Katherine Stamps Mitchell

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index

 

Work-Life Policies, edited by Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, is available from the Urban Institute Press (ISBN 978-0-87766-748-3, paper, 388 pages, $32.50).

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