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Books:

Beyond the Bottom Line. By Paula M. Rayman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
Back to Work: Determinants of Women’s Successful Re-entry. By Eileen Appelbaum. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1981.
The New American WorkPlace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States. By Eileen Appelbaum, et al. Cornell University, 1994.
Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace. By Jackie Krasas Rogers. Cornell UP, 2000.
White Collar Sweatshop. By Jill Fraser Andresky. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001.
The Work and Family Interface: Toward a Contextual Effects Perspective. By G. Bowen and J. Pittman. National Council on Family Relations, 1995.

Articles/studies:

"Facing the Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work-Family Imbalance."

Report of Boston Bar Association Task Force on Professional Challenges and Family needs.

To order/view:
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-742-0615
http://www.bostonbar.org/
workfamilychallenges.htm

“Human resource management: Leaders, laggards, and followers.” By Phillip H. Mirvis.

Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 11, Number 2. 1997.

To order:
Academy of Management
Pace University
P.O. Box 3020
235 Elm Road
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
914-923-2607
http://www.aom.pace.edu

"Integrating Work and Family Life." By Lotte Bailyn, Robert Drago and Thomas A. Kochan.

Report of the Sloan Work-Family Network. MIT, Sloan School of Management, May 2001.

To order: http://lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam/ or http://mitsloan.mit.edu/iwer

"More Than Part-Time: The Effect of Reduced-Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment, and Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms."

Report of the Employment Issues Committee, Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, 2000.

To order:
Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts
6 Beacon Street, Suite 915
Boston, MA 02108
617-936-6666
http://www.womensbar.org/

“Negotiating the Work-Family Balance.” By Laureen Lazarovici.

Perspectives on Work: The Magazine of the IRRA. Vol 4, Number 2. 2000.

To order:
Industrial Relations Research Association
121 Labor and Industrial Relations
University of Illinois
504 E. Armory, MC-504
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-0072
http://www.irra.uiuc.edu/
“Organizational Paradigms of Reduced Load Work: Accommodation, Elaboration, Transformation.” By Mary Dean Lee, et al. To order:
Center for Families
School of Consumer and Family Sciences
1260 Stone Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1260
Telephone: 765-494-2932
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/
CFF/Improvising.html

“Problems At Home.” By Susan C. Cass.

Perspectives on Work: The Magazine of the Industrial Relations Research Association. Vol. 4, Number 2. 2000.

To order:
Industrial Relations Research Association
121 Labor and Industrial Relations
University of Illinois
504 E. Armory, MC-504
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-0072
http://www.irra.uiuc.edu/

“Rat Race Redux: Adverse Selection in the Determination of Work Hours in Law Firms.” By Renee M. Landers, et al.

The American Economic Review, pp. 329-47 June 1996.

To order:
American Economic Review Editorial Office
209 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542-4601
609-921-0301
http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/

“Secretary Herman Addresses the Challenges and Opportunities of a Family-Friendly Workforce.” By Patty Reilly.

Perspectives on Work: The Magazine of the IRRA Vol 4, Number 2. 2000.

To order:
Industrial Relations Research Association
121 Labor and Industrial Relations
University of Illinois
504 E. Armory, MC-504
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-0072
http://www.irra.uiuc.edu/

“Too Seldom is Heard an Encouraging Word: A Study of Work-life Programs and Corporate Culture’s Impact on Utilization.”

Philadelphia: Intracorp, 1998.

To order:
Catherwood Library
Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Telephone: 607-255-2277
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/
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“Work and Family and Labor/Management Collaboration.” By Lea Grundy and Netsy Firestein.

 

 

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To order:
Labor Project for Working Families
2521 Channing Way, # 5555
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-643-7088
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/
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