Family time : the social organization of care / [edited by] Nancy Folbre & Michael Bittman.
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TextSeries: Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 2.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: p. cmISBN: - 0415310091 (alk. paper)
- 0415310105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Families -- Time management -- Economic aspects
- Caregivers -- Time management -- Economic aspects
- Child care -- Economic aspects
- Older people -- Home care -- Economic aspects
- Work and family
- Feminist economics
- Families -- Economic aspects
- Families -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
- Sexual division of labor
- Sexual division of labor -- Cross-cultural studies
- Families -- Time management
- Families -- Time management -- Cross-cultural studies
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- HQ728 .F324443 2004
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| 306.85 FAM Families and the state : changing relationships / | 306.85 FAM Families in society : boundaries and relationships / | 306.85 FAM Families in society : boundaries and relationships / | 306.85 FAM Family time : the social organization of care / | 306.85 GOO The family / | 306.85 HAL New families : reviving and creating meaningful bonds / | 306.85 HAN Handbook of world families / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Michael Bittman and Nancy Folbre -- 1. A theory of the misallocation of time / Nancy Folbre -- 2. Family time and public policy in the United States / Timothy M. Smeeding and Joseph T. Marchand -- 3. Activity, proximity, or responsibility? : measuring parental childcare time / Michelle J. Budig and Nancy Folbre -- 4. Making the invisible visible : the life and time(s) of informal caregivers / Michael Bittman, Janet E. Fast, Kimberly Fisher and Cathy Thomson -- 5. Bringing up Bobby and Betty : the inputs and outputs of childcare time / Duncan Ironmonger -- 6. Valuing informal elder care / Douglas A. Wolf -- 7. Packaging care : what happens when children receive nonparental care? / Michael Bittman, Lyn Craig and Nancy Folbre -- 8. Parenting and employment : what time-use surveys show / Michael Bittman -- 9. The rush hour : the quality of leisure time and gender equity / Michael Bittman and Judy Wajcman -- 10. A tale of dual-earner families in four countries / Shelley Pacholok and Anne H. Gauthier -- 11. Parenthood without penalty : time-use and public policy in Australia and Finland / Michael Bittman -- Note : details of Australian time-use surveys.
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