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"Manage the competing demands of careers, child-rearing, and chores-together. When you and your partner are prioritizing your careers and your family, every day can feel like a series of small and large negotiations. How you navigate balancing both of your careers with your family life not only affects the type of people you're raising, your success at work, and how smoothly your household runs, but also how you feel about each other. Can you each chase your dreams, raise good citizens, make time for hobbies and health, and nourish your relationship well enough that you still like each other when your nest is empty and you're in the final acts of your careers? If it seems like a lot, that's because it is a lot. But it's possible to support your family, your children, your careers, and your relationship without collapsing into a heap every Friday night. In Two-Career Families, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent and a partner, from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth. You'll learn to: define success as individuals, as a family, and as a couple, stay on top of daily demands while tracking long-term goals, communicate your needs more effectively, make fair trade-offs, deal with crises and setbacks, build and maintain a team mindset, balance it all-or at least most of it"--

Work and family. --- Dual-career families. --- Work-life balance.

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"Dreadful Desires investigates how love is orchestrated as an apparatus of sentiments integrating individual subject making with exploitative policies to serve collective interests of the Chinese state and transnational capital. Drawing upon discursive analysis, empirical data, and ethnographic fieldwork as well as popular culture texts, Charlie Yi Zhang investigates how love is orchestrated as an apparatus of sentiments through the systems of gender, class, and sexuality that integrates individual subject-making with regulation of population to serve collective interests of the Chinese state and transnational capital. Zhang deciphers the ways in which love is projected as a cluster of desirable potentialities, such as private property ownership, upward mobility, and endurable heteronormative intimacy, that generate enduring attachment shaping people's subjectivities. These love-impelled individual subjectivities are aligned with gendered, classed, and sexualized regulation of population by the state to reproduce cheap labor that has fueled China's marketization and reintegration with the global economy"--

Work and family --- Work-life balance --- Women --- Sex role --- Neoliberalism --- Communism and love --- Social conditions --- Employment --- E-books

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This book presents a concise and contemporary account of theory and research on presenteeism. It thoroughly discusses the definition and measurement of presenteeism, followed by an overview of the presenteeism literature focusing on key areas such as the prevalence, causes, consequences, costs and benefits of presenteeism. It reviews the models of presenteeism, and how they have been used to explain presenteeism behavior in the workplace. The authors offer an overview of presenteeism interventions and suggestions for future interventions, as well as recommendations for future research studies on presenteeism. Alisha McGregor is Research Officer at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Research and Development Specialist at Mental Health Movement Pty Ltd, Shellharbour, Australia. Peter Caputi is Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia

Psychology, Industrial. --- Work-life balance. --- Life-work balance --- Time management --- Quality of life --- Work --- Work and family --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists --- Psicologia del treball --- Conciliació de la vida familiar i laboral

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A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better.   As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection and prevent spread of the virus. In the aftermath of this shift, a significant number of workers remain at least partially remote. It is clear that this massive experiment we were forced to run will have long-term consequences, changing the shape of our personal and work lives, as well as the urban landscape around us. How will the rise of telecommuting affect workers' quality of life, the profitability of firms, and the economic geography of our cities and suburbs? Going Remote addresses the uncertainties and possibilities of this moment. In Going Remote, urban economist Matthew E. Kahn takes readers on a journey through the new remote-work economy, revealing how people will configure their lives when they have more freedom to choose where they work and how they live. Melding ideas from labor economics, family economics, the theory of the firm, and urban economics, Kahn paints a realistic picture of the future for workers, firms, and urban areas, big and small. As Kahn shows, the rise of remote work presents especially valuable opportunities for flexibility and equity in the lives of women, minorities, and young people, and even for those whose jobs do not allow them to work from home. Uncovering key implications for our quality of life, Going Remote demonstrates how the rise of remote work can significantly improve the standard of living for millions of people by expanding personal freedom, changing the arc of how we live, work, and play.

Quality of work life --- Telecommuting --- Work-life balance --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional. --- Life-work balance --- Time management --- Quality of life --- Work --- Work and family --- Telecommuting - United States --- Quality of work life - United States --- Work-life balance - United States --- built environment. --- cities. --- commercial real estate prices. --- communting. --- commuters. --- corporate campus. --- economic geography. --- housing costs. --- inequality. --- infrastructure. --- job flexibility. --- labor. --- living standards. --- quality of life. --- suburbs. --- telecommute. --- urban work life. --- work from home. --- workers.

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How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can helpLow-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development. She examines why some parents and children thrive while others struggle, demonstrates how specific job conditions impact parental engagement and child well-being, and discusses common-sense and affordable ways that employers can provide support.In the United States, federal parental leave policy is unfunded. As a result, many new parents, particularly hourly workers, return to their jobs just weeks after giving birth because they cannot afford not to. Not surprisingly, workplace policies that offer parents flexibility and leave time are crucial. But Perry-Jenkins shows that the time parents spend at work also matters. Their day-to-day experiences on the job, such as relationships with supervisors and coworkers, job autonomy, and time pressures, have long-term consequences for parents’ mental health, the quality of their parenting, and, ultimately, the health of their children.An overdue look at an important segment of the parenting population, Work Matters proposes ways to reimagine low-wage work to sustain new families and the development of future generations.

Work and family. --- Low-income parents. --- Parenthood. --- Working poor --- Social conditions. --- Aggression. --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- Anxiety. --- Attunement. --- Aunt. --- Baby Shower. --- Behavior. --- Breastfeeding. --- Caregiver. --- Child care. --- Child development. --- Classless society. --- Clothing. --- Cognitive skill. --- Conformity. --- Cowardice. --- Creativity. --- Customer service. --- Day care. --- Denis Diderot. --- Depression (mood). --- Didacticism. --- Economic inequality. --- Economic security. --- Educational inequality. --- Employment. --- Family. --- Finding. --- Gaze. --- Group home. --- Harvard University. --- Health insurance. --- Hostility. --- Household income. --- Human behavior. --- Income. --- Infant. --- Knightly Piety. --- Landscaping. --- Loaded question. --- London Society (organisation). --- Marriage proposal. --- Obstacle. --- Occupational safety and health. --- Office Assistant. --- Optimism. --- Ownership. --- Parental leave. --- Parenting styles. --- Parenting. --- Pediatrics. --- Physiognomy. --- Point system (driving). --- Poverty. --- Pride. --- Probation (workplace). --- Questionnaire. --- Receptionist. --- Recipe. --- Responsiveness. --- Result. --- Retail. --- Sadness. --- Satire. --- Shame. --- Sharing. --- Shell shock. --- Single parent. --- Skepticism. --- Social class. --- Social environment. --- Social group. --- Social policy. --- Social position. --- Sociology. --- Special Circumstances. --- Spouse. --- Stressor. --- Subplot. --- Supermarket. --- Supervisor. --- Symptom. --- Tardiness (scheduling). --- Tax break. --- The Castle of Otranto. --- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. --- The Various. --- Thought. --- Underclass. --- Unemployment. --- Vegetable. --- Vitality. --- Well-being. --- White-collar worker. --- Work order. --- Working class. --- Working poor. --- Working time. --- Workplace. --- Writing.