Over the last two decades, American workers have increasingly divided into a majority who work too many hours and a minority with no work at all. This split hurts families at both extremes, but I focus here on the growing scarcity of time among the long-hours majority. For many of them, a speed­up at the […]

Over the last two decades, American workers have increasingly divided into a majority who work too many hours and a minority with no work at all. This split hurts families at both extremes, but I focus here on the growing scarcity of time among the long-hours majority. For many of them, a speed­up at the […]

In the basement bedroom of her employer’s home in Washington, D. C., Rowena Bautista keeps four pictures on her dresser: two of her own chil­dren, back in Camiling, a Philippine farming village, and two of children she has cared for as a nanny in the United States. The pictures of her own children, Clinton and […]

In the basement bedroom of her employer’s home in Washington, D. C., Rowena Bautista keeps four pictures on her dresser: two of her own chil­dren, back in Camiling, a Philippine farming village, and two of children she has cared for as a nanny in the United States. The pictures of her own children, Clinton and […]

While spending time with their families over the course of three summers in the early 1990s, I became acquainted with two little girls, Janey King and Hunter Escala. When I first met them, both girls were four years old and both daughters of two-job couples who worked at Amerco, a company I researched to find […]

While spending time with their families over the course of three summers in the early 1990s, I became acquainted with two little girls, Janey King and Hunter Escala. When I first met them, both girls were four years old and both daughters of two-job couples who worked at Amerco, a company I researched to find […]

Kavesdropping is discussed only glancingly in the literature on the social­ization of children, child development, and sociology of childhood, and in (lie growing literature on work and family life, so let me say a word first about how ii might fit in. The first three sets of literature take as their task the development of […]

Kavesdropping is discussed only glancingly in the literature on the social­ization of children, child development, and sociology of childhood, and in (lie growing literature on work and family life, so let me say a word first about how ii might fit in. The first three sets of literature take as their task the development of […]

In his classic novel about the Follet family in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1915, James Agee describes how six-year-old Rufus and his younger sister Catherine secretly sit on the staircase overhearing a conversation between their recently bereaved mother and Father Jackson, the unpleasant priest who is paying their mother a mysterious visit. Taking great care not […]

In his classic novel about the Follet family in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1915, James Agee describes how six-year-old Rufus and his younger sister Catherine secretly sit on the staircase overhearing a conversation between their recently bereaved mother and Father Jackson, the unpleasant priest who is paying their mother a mysterious visit. Taking great care not […]