The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era by Michael B. Arthur (Ed.), Denise M. Rousseau (Ed.). Oxford University Press (2001). The Boundaryless Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness.
Precarious work, insecure workers: Employment relations in transition by Arne Kalleberg; AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW (2009), Vol. 74 (Feb: p. 1–22). excerpt: “Precarious work has far-reaching consequences that cut across many areas of concern to sociologists. Creating insecurity for many people, it has pervasive consequences not only for the nature of work, workplaces, and people’s work experiences, but also for many nonwork individual (e.g., stress, education), social (e.g., family, community), and political (e.g., stability, democratization) outcomes. It is thus important that we understand the new workplace arrangements that generate precarious work and insecurity. I concentrate in this address on employment, which is work that produces earnings (or profit, if one is self-employed). Equating work with pay or profit is of course a limited view, as there are many activities that create value but are unpaid, such as those that take place in the household. Given my focus largely on industrial countries, particularly the United States…”
Balancing Profession and Family: A Survey of Female Library Professionals with Children by Lesley Brown and Suzanna Yaukey; Library Leadership and Management (2022), Vol. 36 (3). excerpt: Many authors that have undertaken research on the topic of working parents point to policies and laws in the United States that perpetuate problems for women. Such systemic barriers prevent all industries from developing and sustaining real solutions to help working parents. In her book “Mothers at Work: Who Opts Out?” Liana Landivar discusses the implications for working mothers in various occupations across fields/industries and sheds light on the importance of legal and cultural shifts that have taken place since the 1970s. Landivar puts forward that policies such as the Family and Medical Leave Act have allowed working mothers to pursue a “wider range of occupations” and have increased their job attachment following childbirth.” What most of the research cited here has in common is that almost all of the authors consider the enormous impact that American policy (government as well as company) and/or culture has on the lives of working mothers.
Fatherhood premium, motherhood penalty? What Nobel Prize economics winner’s research shows by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy; USA Today (2023) October 13 Issue. Goldin’s recent research has also found that while mothers make less than non-mothers because of the reduced number of hours they work, fathers make more than non-fathers over the course of their careers. “Quite frankly, it’s the most disturbing part of this,” Goldin told USA TODAY in a phone interview on Oct. 10, a day after she won the Nobel prize. “Why is it that fathers are doing better (than non-fathers), even though they have kids? Why is the fatherhood premium growing over time?” she asks, adding that “the price of being a woman stays constant (due to social norms around gender), which is also somewhat disturbing.”
Goldin says women with children enable men with children to achieve more. She continues, “Men are able to step forward because women step backward. It’s not simply taking the shirts to the dry cleaner that women do, they are boosting their [husband’s] ability to do work.”
Not just a mother’s problem: The consequences of perceived workplace flexibility bias for all workers by Lindsey Trimble O’Connor & Erin A. Cech; Sociological Perspectives (2018), Vol. 61 (5).
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