Earning and Caring in Canadian Families / Roderic Beaujot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaujot, Roderic P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Canada.

Families.

Families--Economic aspects--Canada.

Work and family--Canada.

Work and family.

Sexual division of labor--Canada.

Sexual division of labor.

Family policy--Canada.

Family policy.

Canada.

Genre:

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

416 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most people place a high value on family, work, and children. However, there are often serious tensions associated with juggling and accommodating these priorities. This book analyses these tensions, working on the assumption that it is through the effective sharing of associated earning and caring activities that families are made and maintained. The focus on the conflict between caring and earning highlights the basis on which the family activities of women and men are similar and different. Much writing on families tends to accentuate crisis and conflict. But a study of total time spent on productive activities (paid plus unpaid labour) actually shows there are not large differences between the time expended by women and men, although differences do lie in the division of this work. Furthermore, some couples maintain more symmetry which suggests there should be new social policies to promote "new families" based on a different accommodation for the sharing of provider and parenting roles. Indeed, the book especially considers the Swedish model where social policy effectively creates an incentive to postpone child-bearing until careers are established, the result being that the cost of child-rearing is partially transferred from women to men and to the workplace. Clearly, family questions are complex. The division of family labour was central to the writings of early modern sociologists and family questions remain central to our understanding of social class, stratification, and inequality. In taking a detailed look at the abundant data and analyses available on families through the lens of the "earning and caring equation," this book provides an excellent foundation for new understanding of the family. In so doing it alters our views on gender and inequality and offers new approaches to public policy and to human resource issues facing public and private organizations.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE: FAMILY AND WORK""; ""TWO: THE GENDER CONTEXT""; ""THREE: CHANGING FAMILIES""; ""FOUR: PAID WORK AND FAMILY INCOME""; ""FIVE: UNPAID WORK AND THE DIVISION OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES""; ""SIX: FERTILITY""; ""SEVEN: CHILDREN AND YOUTH""; ""EIGHT: POLICY DIMENSIONS""; ""References""; ""Copyrights""; ""Author index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Subject index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

9781442602540

1442602546

OCLC:

1110720003