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