Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Work and Family Through Time and Space: Revisiting Old Themes and Charting New Directions

  • Chapter
Handbook of Marriage and the Family

Abstract

As we began work on this chapter we were acutely aware of the current state of the economy in the United States as the backdrop for our review. With the highest unemployment rates since the early 1990s, record numbers of families facing foreclosures on their homes, and the demise of some of the countries’ most stable industries, citizens of the United States are facing economic challenges never before seen in our lifetimes. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank that monitors economic issues, “This recession has become the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression” (Mishel & Shierholz, 2009). We begin our chapter describing this economic and social context because it highlights a primary theme of our comments, a theme highlighted long ago by Urie Bronfenbrenner in his Ecological Model, namely that the social contexts from the broadest level, a national recession, to the most proximal level, one’s parent losing their job, shape the path of human development (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006). As we consider how economic and work factors influence workers and their families we must also remain cognizant of a second premise of the ecological model, individuals can also shape their environments. It is with these two key notions in mind, that contexts can shape individual development and individuals can shape contexts, that we tackle the work and family literature from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Barling, J., & MacEwen, K. E. (1992). Linking work experiences to facets of marital functioning. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 573–583.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnett, R. C. (1994). Home to work spillover revisited: A study of full-time employed women in dual-earner couples. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56, 647–656.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnett, R. C. (1999). A new work-life model for the twenty-first century. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 562, 143–158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnett, R. C., & Gareis, K. C. (2006). Parental after-school stress and psychological well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 101–108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baum, C. L. (2002). A dynamic analysis of the effect of childcare costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants. Demography, 39, 139–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Becker, G. S. (1981). A treatise on the family. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Berk, S. F. (1985). The gender factory: The apportionment of work in American households. New York, NY: Plenum Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Bianchi, S., & Milkie, M. A. (2010). Work and family research in the first decade of the 21st Century. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(3), 705–725.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bielby, D. D., & Bielby, W. T. (1988). She works hard for the money: Household responsibilities and the allocation of work effort. American Journal of Sociological, 93, 1031–1059.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blair-Loy, M. (2003). Competing devotions: Career and family among women executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bohen, H. H., & Viveros-Long, A. (1981). Balancing jobs and family life: Do flexible work schedules help? Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bolger, N., DeLongis, A., Kessler, R. C., & Wethington, E. (1989). The contagion of stress across multiple roles. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51, 75–183.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bronfenbrenner, U., & Crouter, A. C. (1982). Work and family through time and space. In S. B. Kamerman & C. D. Hayes (Eds.), Families that work: Children in a changing world (pp. 39–83). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bronfenbrenner, U., Henderson, C. R., Alvarez, W. F., & Cochran, M. (1982). The relation of the mother’s work status to parents’ spontaneous descriptions of their children. Ithaca, NY: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. A. (2006). The bioecological model of human development. In R. M. Lerner & W. Damon (Eds.), Theoretical models of human development (Vol. 1, pp. 793–828). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brooks-Gunn, J., Han, W. J., & Waldfogel, J. (2002). Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes in the first three years of life: The NICHD study of early child care. Child Development, 73, 1052–1072.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bumpus, M. F., Crouter, A. C., & McHale, S. M. (1999). Work demands of dual-earner couples: Implications for parents’ knowledge about children’s daily lives in middle childhood. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 465–475.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burton, L. M., Lein, L., & Kolak, A. (2005). Health and mothers’ employment in low-income families. In S. Bianchi, L. M. Casper, & R. B. King (Eds.), Work, family, health and well-being (pp. 493–510). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carlson, M., & McLanahan, S. (2002). Fragile families, father involvement and public policy. In C. Tamis-LeMonda & N. Cabrera (Eds.), Handbook of father involvement: Multidisciplinary perspectives (pp. 461–488). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carr, D. (2002). The psychological consequences of work-family trade-offs for three cohorts of men and women. Social Psychological Quarterly, 65, 103–124.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Moffitt, R., Lohman, B., Cherlin, A., Coley, R., & Pittman, L. (2003). Mothers’ transition from welfare to work and the well-being of preschoolers and adolescents. Science, 299, 1548–1552.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coley, R. L., & Morris, J. E. (2002). Comparing mothers and fathers reports of father involvement among low-income minority families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 982–997.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conte, C., & Karr, A. R. (2001). An Outline of the U.S. Economy. Retrieved from U.S. Department of State January 2012 http://usinfo.org/enus/government/forpolicy/oecon.html

  • Crouter, A. C. (1982). Participative work as an influence on human development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 5(1), 71–90.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crouter, A. C., Baril, M. E., Davis, K. D., & McHale, S. M. (2008). Processes linking social class and racial socialization in African-American, dual-earner families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 70(5), 1311–1325.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crouter, A. C., & Booth, A. (2009). Work-life policies. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crouter, A. C., Bumpus, M. F., Maguire, M. C., & McHale, S. M. (1999). Linking parents’ work pressure and adolescents’ well-being: Insights into dynamics in dual-earner families. Developmental Psychology, 35(6), 1453–1461.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crouter, A. C., & Larson, R. (Eds.). (1998). Temporal rhythms in adolescence: Clocks, calendars, and the coordination of daily life. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, Number 82. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crouter, A. C., & McHale, S. M. (1993). Temporal rhythms in family life: Seasonal variation in the relation between parental work and family processes. Developmental Psychology, 29, 198–205. Crouter, A. C., Bumpus, M. F., Head, M. R., & McHale, S. M. (2001). Implications of overwork and overload for the quality of men’s family relationships. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 404–416.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davis, K. D., & Mitchel, K. S. (2009). Limited, mismatched, and unequal: Work-life policies and practices in the United States. In A. C. Crouter & A. Booth (Eds.), Work-life policies (pp. 323–342). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Demos, J., & Boocock, S. S. (1978). Turning points: Historical and sociological essays on the family. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • DiCecio, R., Engemann, K. M., Owyan, M. T., & Wheeler, C. H. (2008). Changing trends in the labor force: A survey (pp. 47–62). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Elder, G. H., Jr. (1974). Children of the great depression. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frone, M. R., Russell, M., & Cooper, M. L. (1992). Antecedents and outcomes of work-family conflict: Testing a model of the work-family interface. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 65–78.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Galambos, N., & Maggs, J. L. (1990). Putting mothers’ work-related stress in perspective: Mothers and adolescents in dual-earner families. Journal of Early Adolescence, 10, 313–328.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Geerken, M., & Gove, W. R. (1983). At home and at work: The family’s allocation of labor. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gennetian, L. A., Duncan, G., Knox, B., Vargas, W., Clark-Kaufman, E., & London, A. S. (2004). How welfare policies affect adolescents’ school outcomes: A synthesis of evidence from experimental studies. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 14, 399–423.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, A. E., & Perry-Jenkins, M. (2004). Division of labor and working-class women’s well-being across the transition to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 225–236.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goode, W. J. (1960). A theory of role strain. American Sociological Review, 25(483), 496.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gornick, J. C., & Meyers, M. K. (2003). Families that work: Policies reconciling parenthood and employment. New York: Russell Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenberger, E., O’Neil, R., & Nagel, S. K. (1994). Linking workplace and homeplace: Relations between the nature of adults’ work and their parenting behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 30, 990–1002.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Greenhaus, J. H., & Beutell, N. J. (1985). Sources of conflict between work and family roles. Academy of Management Review, 10, 76–88.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grzywacz, J. G., Almeida, D. M., & McDonald, D. A. (2002). Work-family spillover and daily reports of work and family stress in the adult labor force. Family Relations, 51(1), 28–36.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grzywacz, J. G., & Marks, N. F. (2000). Family, work, work-family spillover and problem drinking in midlife. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62(2), 336–348.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guelzow, M. G., Bird, G. W., & Koball, E. H. (1991). An exploratory path analysis of the stress process for dual-career men and women. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 151–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hareven, T. (1975). The laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912–1922: The role of family and ethnicity in the adjustment of Urban Life. Labor History, 16, 249–265.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Helms, H. M., Walls, J. K., Crouter, A. C., & McHale, S. M. (2010). Spouses’ provider-role attitudes and their links with marital satisfaction, role overload and the division of housework: A dyadic approach. Journal of Family Psychology, 24(5), 568–577.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Henley, J. R., & Lambert, S. (2005). Nonstandard work and child care needs of low-income parents. In S. Bianchi, L. M. Casper, & R. B. King (Eds.), Work, family, health and well-being (pp. 473–492). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heyman, J. (2000). The widening gap: Why America’s working families are in jeopardy—and what can be done about it. New York, NY: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hochschild, A. (1989). The second shift. New York, NY: Viking.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hochschild, A. R. (1997). The time bind: When work becomes home and home becomes work. New York: Henry Holt.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hoffman, S. D. (2009). The changing impact of marriage and children on women’s labor force participation. Monthly Labor Review, 132, 3–14.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hyde, J. S., Else-Quest, N. M., Goldsmith, H. H., & Biesanz, J. C. (2004). Children’s temperament and behavior problems predict their employed mothers’ work functioning. Child Development, 75, 580–594.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jacob, J. A., & Gerson, K. (2001). Overworked individuals or overworked families? Explaining trends in work, leisure and family. Work and Occupations, 28, 40–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, E., Levine, A., & Doolittle, F. (1999). Fathers’ fair share: Helping poor men manage child support and fatherhood. New York, NY: Russell Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kahn, R. L., Wolfe, D. M., Quinn, R. P., & Snoek, J. D. (1964). Organizational stress: Studies in role conflict and ambiguity. New York: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamerman, S. B., & Kahn, A. J. (Eds.). (1978). Family policy: Government and families in fourteen countries. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanter, R. M. (1977). Work and family in the United States: A critical review and agenda for research and policy. New York: Russell Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanter, R. M. (1978). Families, family processes and economic life: Toward systematic analysis of social historical research. In J. Demos & S. S. Boocock (Eds.), Turning points: Historical and sociological essays on the family (pp. S316–S339). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karasek, R. A., Baker, D., Marxer, F., Ahlborn, A., & Theorell, T. (1981). Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease: A prospective study of Swedish men. American Journal of Public Health, 71, 694–705.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Keene, J. R., & Reynolds, J. R. (2005). The jobs costs of family demands: Gender differences in negative family-to-work spillover. Journal of Family Issues, 26, 275–299.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kelly, E. L. (2006). Work-family policies: The United States in International perspective. In M. Pitt-Catsouphes, E. Kossek, & S. Sweet (Eds.), The work and family handbook: Multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches (pp. 99–123). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kohn, M. L. (1969). Class and conformity: A study in values. Homewood, IL: Dorsey.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kohn, M. L., & Schooler, C. (Eds.). (1983). Work and personality. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kurtz, D. (2002). Caring for teenage children. Journal of Family Issues, 23, 748–767.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ladd, G. W. (2005). Children’s peer relations and social competence: A century of progress. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lambert, S. J. (2009). Making a difference for hourly employees. In A. C. Crouter & A. Booth (Eds.), Work-life policies (pp. 169–196). Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landale, N. S., & Oropesa, R. S. (2001). Father involvement in the lives of mainland Puerto Rican children: Contributions of nonresident, cohabiting, and married fathers. Social Forces, 79, 945–968.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Larson, R., & Richards, M. H. (1994). Divergent realities: The emotional lives of mothers, fathers and adolescents. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, S., Kagan, C., & Heaton, P. (2000). Dual-earner parents with disabled children: Family patterns for working and caring. Journal of Family Issues, 21, 1031–1060.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marks, S. R. (1977). Multiple roles and role strain: Some notes on human energy, time and commitment. American Sociological Review, 42, 921–936.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marks, S. R., & MacDermid, S. M. (1996). Multiple roles and the self: A theory of role balance. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 58, 417–432.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marshall, N. L., & Barnett, R. C. (1991). Race, class, and multiple role strains and gains among women employed in the service sector. Women & Health, 17(4), 1–16.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mason, C. (2002). 100 most frequently cited work-family articles. Unpublished document. Article retrieved January 2012 from Work and Family Research Network http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/welcome-1/

  • Menaghan, E. G., & Parcel, T. L. (1990). Parental employment and family life: Research in the 1980s. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 52, 1079–1098.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Menaghan, E. G., & Parcel, T. L. (1991). Determining children’s home environments: The impact of maternal characteristics and current occupational and family conditions. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 417–431.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Menaghan, E. G., & Parcel, T. L. (1995). Social sources of change in children’s home environment: The effects of parental occupational experiences and family conditions. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 69–84.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mishel, L., Bernstein, J., & Schmitt, J. (1999). The state of working America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mishel, L., & Shierholz, H. (2009). Economic Policy Institute. The worst downturn since the Great Depression. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from www.epi.org/publications/entry/jobspict_200906

  • Moen, P., & Dempster-McClain, D. (1987). Employed parents: Role strain, work time, and preferences for working less. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 49, 579–590.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moen, P., Kelly, E., & Chernak, K. (2009). Learning from a natural experiment: Studying a corporate work-time policy initiative. In A. C. Crouter & A. Booth (Eds.), Work-life policies (pp. 97–132). Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moorehouse, M. J. (1991). Linking maternal employment patterns to mother-child activities and children’s school competence. Developmental Psychology, 27, 295–303.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mortimer, J. T., & London, J. (1984). The varying linkages of work and family. In P. Voydanoff (Ed.), Work and family: Changing roles of men and women (pp. 20–35). Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mott, P. E., Mann, F. C., McLoghlin, Q., & Warwick, D. P. (1965). Shift work: The social psychological, and physical consequences. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Center for Schools and Communities. (2010). Info retrieved from website January 2012 http://stage.web.fordham.edu/test_suite/test_designs/colleges_and_grad_sc/education/school_partnerships/national_center_for_/

  • NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (1997). The effects of infant child care on infant-mother attachment security: Results of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Child Development, 68, 860–879.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (1998). Early child care and self-control, compliance and problem behavior at twenty-four and thirty-six months. Child Development, 69, 1145–1170.

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Neil, R., & Greenberger, E. (1994). Patterns of commitment to work and parenting: Implications for role strain. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56, 101–118.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Parcel, T. L., & Menaghan, E. G. (1994a). Early parental work, family social capital, and early childhood outcomes. The American Journal of Sociology, 99, 972–1009.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Parcel, T. L., & Menaghan, E. G. (1994b). Parents’ jobs and children’s lives. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

    Google Scholar 

  • Perry-Jenkins, M. (2005). Work in the working-class: Challenges facing workers and their families. In S. Bianchi, L. M. Casper, & R. B. King (Eds.), Work, family, health and well-being (pp. 453–472). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Perry-Jenkins, M., & Crouter, A. C. (1990). Men’s provider-role attitudes: Implications for household work and marital satisfaction. Journal of Family Issues, 11(2), 136–156.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perry-Jenkins, M., Goldberg, A., Pierce, C., & Sayer, A. (2007). Shift work, role overload, and the transition to parenthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 123–138.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perry-Jenkins, M., Repetti, R. L., & Crouter, A. C. (2000). Work and family in the 1990s. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62(4), 981–998.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Piotrkowski, C. S. (1979). Work and the family system: A naturalistic study of working class and lower-middle-class families. New York, NY: The Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (2002). Work and Family Research Timeline—“A Living Resource.” Retrieved August 15, 2009, from http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/template.php?name=wftimelines

  • Pleck, J. H. (1977). The work-family role system. Social Problems, 24, 417–427.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pleck, J.H., & Staines, G.L., (1985). Work schedules and family life in two-earner couples. Journal of Family Issues, 6, 61–82.

    Google Scholar 

  • Presser, H. B. (1994). Employment schedules among dual-earner spouses and the division of household labor by gender. American Sociological Review, 59, 348–364.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Presser, H. B., & Cox, A. G. (1997). The work schedules of low-educated American women and welfare reform. Monthly Labor Review, 120, 25–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pruitt, B. H., & Rapoport, R. (2003). Looking backwards to go forwards: A timeline of the work-family field in the United States. Retrieved August 15, 2009, from http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/timelines/other/PRtimeline.pdf

  • Raudenbush, S. W., & Bryk, A. S. (2002). Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raver, C. C. (2003). Does work pay psychologically as well as economically? The role of employment in predicting depressive symptoms and parenting among low-income families. Child Development, 74(6), 1720–1736.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Repetti, R. L. (1989). Effects of daily workload on subsequent behavior during marital interaction: The roles of social withdrawal and spouse support. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 651–659.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Repetti, R. L. (1993). Short-term effects of occupational stressors on daily mood and health complaints. Health Psychology, 12, 126–131.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reynolds, J. R., & Aletraris, L. (2007). Work-family conflict, children, and hour mismatches in Australia. Journal of Family Issues, 28, 749–772.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roehling, P. V., Jarvis, L. H., & Swope, H. E. (2005). Variations in negative work-family spillover among White, Black, and Hispanic American men and women: Does ethnicity matter? Journal of Family Issues, 26, 840–865.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rogers, S. J. (1999). Wives’ income and marital quality: Are there reciprocal effects? Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 123–132.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rook, K., Dooley, D., & Catalano, R. (1991). Stress transmission: The effects of husbands’ job stressors on the emotional health of their wives. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 165–177.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schor, J. (1991). The overworked American. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smelser, N. J., & Halpern, S. (1978). The historical triangulation of family, economy, and education. In J. Demos & S. S. Boocock (Eds.), Turning points: Historical and sociological essays on the family (pp. S288–S315). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spitze, G. (1988). Women’s employment and family relations: A review. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 50, 595–618.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stack, C. B. (1974). All our kin: Strategies for survival in a Black community. New York, NY: Harper.

    Google Scholar 

  • Staines, G. L., & Pleck, J. H. (1983). The impact of work schedules on the family. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center.

    Google Scholar 

  • Su, B. W. (2001). The U.S. economy to 2010. Monthly Labor Review Online, 124(11), pp. 3–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Suarez-Orozco, C., & Suarez-Orozco, M. M. (2001). Children of immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Szinovacz, M. E., & Davey, A. (2008). The division of parent care between spouses. Ageing and Society, 28, 571–597.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1975). Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, Part 2. Washington, DC: GPO.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1987). Employment and earnings (Vol. 34(4)). Washington, DC: GPO.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1989). Poverty in the United States, 1987. Current Population Reports (Series P-60, No. 163). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1999). Statistical abstract of the United States (118th ed.). Washington, DC: GPO.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (2002). Statistical abstract of the United States (121st ed.). Washington, DC: GPO.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census. (2008). Household income rises, poverty rate unchanged, number of uninsured down. Washington, DC: GPO.

    Google Scholar 

  • Uttal, L. (1999). Using kin for child care: Embedment in the socioeconomic networks of extended families. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 845–857.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Weinberg, D. H. (1996). A brief look at postwar U.S. income inequality. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://www.census.gov

  • Wharton, A. S., & Blair-Loy, M. (2002). The “overtime culture” in a global corporation: A cross-national study of finance professionals’ interest in working part-time. Work and Occupations, 29, 32–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • White, L., & Keith, B. (1990). The effect of shift work on the quality and stability of marital relations. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 52, 453–462.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, W. J. (1997). When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor. New York, NY: Vintage.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins PhD

  2. Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, 101 Gates Road, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2020, USA

    Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth PhD

Authors
  1. Maureen Perry-Jenkins PhD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth PhD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Maureen Perry-Jenkins PhD .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Family Studies & Social Work, Miami University Dept. Family Studies & Social Work, Oxford, Ohio, USA

    Gary W. Peterson

  2. Dept. Family Studies & Social Work, Miami University Dept. Family Studies & Social Work, Oxford, Ohio, USA

    Kevin R. Bush

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Perry-Jenkins, M., MacDermid Wadsworth, S. (2013). Work and Family Through Time and Space: Revisiting Old Themes and Charting New Directions. In: Peterson, G., Bush, K. (eds) Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_23

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation