"Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be. Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the midd…