In the last decades, there has been considerable effort from researchers and public policymakers to set an agenda for the United States on work, family, and community issues. There has been movement in both research and public policy to connect work and family perspectives, and, more recently, community contexts have been recognized as well. However, current research and public policy models have been limited by a number of deficiencies that prevent them from developing and implementing an agenda that has the capacity to move our nation forward to meet the challenges that lie ahead. In addition, there is little direct connection between the findings from current research and the content of new public policies. This article will review existing work, family, and community research and public policy in terms of prevailing strengths and deficiencies and then set forth possibilities for a future agenda.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Applebaum, Eileen and Rosemary Batt.1994. The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
2.
Bahr, Stephen J., Gabe Wang, and Jie Zhang.1991. Early Family Research. In Family Research: A Sixty-Year Review, ed. Stephen J. Bahr.New York: Lexington Books.
3.
Bailyn, Lotte.1993. Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and the New Corporate World . New York: Free Press.
4.
Baldwin, A.L.1948. Socialization and the Parent-Child Relationship. Child Development19(3):127-36.
5.
Berger, Suzanne and Michael J. Piore .1980. Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.
6.
Berry, Mary Frances.1993. The Politics of Parenthood: Childcare, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother. New York: Viking Penguin.
7.
Bluestone, Barry and Bennett Harrison.1982. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry. New York: Basic Books.
8.
Bond, J.T., E. Galinsky, and J.E. Swanberg.1998. The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. New York: Families and Work Institute.
9.
Bose, Christine, Roslyn Feldberg , and Natalie Sokoloff, eds. 1987. Hidden Aspects of Women's Work. New York: Praeger.
10.
Brenner, H.M. and A. Mooney.1983. Unemployment and Health in the Context of Economic Change. Social Science and Medicine17(16):1125-38.
11.
Byington, M.F.1910. Homestead: The Household of a Mill Town. Philadelphia: Russell Sage Foundation, Press of William F. Fell.
12.
Cappelli, P.1995. Rethinking Employment. British Journal of Industrial Relations33(Dec.):563-602.
13.
Carré, Françoise.1992. Temporary Employment in the Eighties. In New Policies for the Part-Time and Contingent Workforce, ed. V. L. duRivage.Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
14.
Christensen, H.T.1964. Development of the Family Field of Study. In Handbook of Marriage and the Family, ed. H. T. Christensen.Chicago: Rand McNally.
15.
Conger, R.D., G.H. Elder, F.O. Lorenz, R.L. Simons, L.B. Wheelock, S. Huck, and J.N. Melby.1990. Linking Economic Hardship to Marital Quality and Instability. Journal of Marriage and the Family52:643-56.
16.
Coontz, Stephanie.1988. The Special Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900. London: Verso .
17.
Cott, Nancy F. and Elizabeth H. Pleck, eds. 1979. A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women. New York : Simon & Schuster.
18.
Doeringer, Peter B., K. Christensen, P.M. Flynn, D.T. Hall, H.C. Katz, J.H. Keefe, C.J. Ruhm, A.M. Sum, and M. Useem.1991. Turbulence in the American Workplace . New York: Oxford University Press .
19.
Doeringer, Peter B. and Michael J. Piore .1971. Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
20.
Dornbusch, Sanford M. and Myra Strober, eds. 1988. Feminism, Children, and the New Families. New York: Guilford Press.
21.
Engels, Friedrich.1902. The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the StateChicago: Charles K. Kerr.
22.
Ferber, Marianne and Jane Waldfogel.1996. "Contingent" Work: Blessing and/or Curse. Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe Public Policy Institute.
23.
Ferreira, A. and W. Winter.1965. Family Interaction and Decision Making . Archives of General Psychiatry13:214-23.
24.
Galinsky, Ellen, James T. Bond, and Dana E. Friedman .1993. The Changing Workforce: Highlights of the National Study. New York: Families and Work Institute.
25.
Gerstel, Naomi and Harriet Gross, eds. 1987. Families and Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
26.
Googins, Bradley K., M.L. Griffin, and J.C. Casey.1994. Balancing Job and Homelife: Changes over Time in a Corporation. Boston: Boston University, Center for Work and Family.
27.
Gordon, Linda.1988. Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, 1880-1960. New York: Viking.
28.
Gough, Kathleen.1972. An Anthropologist Looks at Engels. In Woman in a Man-Made World: A Socioeconomic Handbook, ed. Nona Glazer and Helen Youngelson WaehrerChicago: Rand McNally.
29.
Gutman, Herbert G.1976. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon.
30.
Hayden, Delores.1984. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. New York: Norton.
31.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell.1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Henry Holt.
32.
Hochschild, Arlie and Ann Machung.1989. Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home . New York: Viking Penguin.
33.
Jones, Jacqueline.1985. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books.
34.
Kanter, Rosabeth M.1977. Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
35.
Kessler-Harris, Alice.1982. Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
36.
Ladner, Joyce.1972. Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman. New York: Harper & Row.
37.
Lamphere, Louise.1987. From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
38.
Lasko, J.K.1954. Parent Behavior Toward First and Second Children. Genetic Psychology Monographs49:97-137.
39.
Leacock, Eleanor Burke, ed. 1981. Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally. New York: Monthly Review Press.
40.
Leana, Carrie R. and Daniel C. Feldman .1992. Coping with Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs. New York: Lexington Books.
41.
Listening to America's Families: Action for the 80s. 1980. The report to the president, Congress, and the nation of the White House Conference on Families.
42.
Lynd, R.S. and H.M. Lynd.1929. Middletown: A Study in American Culture . New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World.
43.
Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg.1988. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: Free Press.
44.
Morgan, Lewis Henry.1877. Ancient Society. London: Macmillan.
45.
Osterman, Paul.1982. Employment Structures Within Firms. British Journal of Industrial Relations20(Nov.):349-61.
46.
—. 1988. Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public PolicyNew York: Oxford University Press.
47.
Pappas, Gregory.1989. The Magic City: Unemployment in a Working Class Community . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
48.
Parsons, Talcott and R.F. Bales.1969. Family, Socialization, and Interaction Process. Glencoe, IL: Free Press .
49.
Pleck, Joseph H.1993. Are Family-Supportive Employer Policies Relevant to Men ? In Men, Work, and Family, ed. J. C. Hood.Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
50.
Radcliffe Public Policy Institute.1997. The Radcliffe-Fleet Project Report. Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe Public Policy Institute.
51.
Rapoport, Rhona and Lotte Bailyn.1996. Relinking Life and Work: Toward a Better Future. A report to theFord Foundation.
52.
Rayman, Paula M. and Barry Bluestone.1982. Out of Work: The Consequences of Unemployment in the Hartford Aircraft Industry. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, Social Welfare Research Institute.
53.
Rubin, Lillian.1976. Worlds of Pain: Life in a Working Class Community. New York: Basic Books.
54.
Rubin, Lillian B.1994. Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity. New York: Harper Collins.
55.
Sacks, Karen.1974. Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production, and Private Property. In Women, Culture, and Society, ed. Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
56.
Sacks, Karen and Dorothy Remy, eds. 1984. My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
57.
Schor, Juliet. 1992. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books.
58.
Stack, Carol B.1974. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community . New York: Harper & Row.
59.
Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children. 1994. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
60.
Steinberg, Bruce.1997. Temporary Help Services: 1996 Performance Review. Alexandria, VA: National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services.
61.
Thomas, W.T. and F. Znaniecki.1918. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
62.
Tilly, Louise A. and Joan W. Scott.1978. Women, Work, and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
63.
Voydanoff, Patricia.1990. Economic Distress and Family Relations: A Review of the Eighties. Journal of Marriage and the Family52:1099-1155.
64.
Willie, Charles.1976. A New Look at Black Families. Bayside, NY: General Hall.
65.
Zavella, Patricia.1987. Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
66.
Zigler, Edward F. and Meryl Frank.1988. The Parental Leave Crisis: Toward a National Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
67.
Zimmerman, Shirley.1992. Family Policies and Family Well-Being: The Role of Political Culture. Newbury Park, CA: Sage .
