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Unions' Responses To Family Concerns, Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson
Unions' Responses To Family Concerns, Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson
Dan Clawson
This article explores the role of unions in regard to work/family issues, a perspective which challenges traditional work/family issues focused primarily on issues like flextime, childcare and family leave. The authors argue for the inclusion of the class component in work and family research studies and stress the importance of researchers to include the responses of unions to family concerns in their investigations. A study of unions, the authors argue, provides access to the experiences of middle-class and working class, a "diverse population not often captured in studies of work-family issues." The authors support their argument by using an analytic …
Unions’ Responses To Family Concerns, Naomi R. Gerstel, Dan Clawson
Unions’ Responses To Family Concerns, Naomi R. Gerstel, Dan Clawson
Naomi R. Gerstel
This article explores the role of unions in regard to work/family issues, a perspective which challenges traditional work/family issues focused primarily on issues like flextime, childcare and family leave. The authors argue for the inclusion of the class component in work and family research studies and stress the importance of researchers to include the responses of unions to family concerns in their investigations. A study of unions, the authors argue, provides access to the experiences of middle-class and working class, a "diverse population not often captured in studies of work-family issues." The authors support their argument by using an analytic …