Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2003
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- Hardcover
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For more than five years, Bookman gained access to the lives of 100 employees at three high-pressure biotech firms in Boston. In the process, she discovered how they yearn to be part of community life; how their inflexible jobs and long commutes prevent them; and how they are forging new ways to stay connected to their communities. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2003. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .
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- Title
- Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy
- Author
- Bookman, Ann
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415935881
- ISBN 13
- 9780415935883
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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About the Author
Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a social anthropologist and author of a number of publications on women's work, work and family issues, unionization, and family policy. Bookman has held a variety of teaching and research positions and has also worked in government. As a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton administration, she served as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave. She is co-editor of Women and the Politics ofEmpowerment.
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