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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A History of Regulating Working Families: Strains Stereotypes Strategies and Solutions 2020 by Dr Grace James Nicole Busby
This book aims primarily to critique the nature and development of the ways in which legal engagement with work-family reconciliation has historically been framed. Families in market economies worldwide have long been confronted by the demands of participating in paid work and providing care for their dependent members. What seems like a relatively simple goal - to enable families to better balance care-giving and paid employment - has raised several difficulties and dilemmas for policy makers and been approached in different ways. Differing economic demographic and attitudinal developments impact upon priorities so that the work-family debate will never be resolved in the same way at any one point or place in history. Nor for the same reasons will the debate ever be completely resolved. However what matters is how the solutions - no matter how incomplete and specific to times and places in history those solutions will be - are framed. Structured thematically this book provides a theoretically informed critique of that framing and although principally focussed on historical developments in the UK discussion is located within EU and International laws and draws upon experiences in other developed countries so as to inform policy debates and strategies at national and global level.