Workplace Flexibility

Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management to make the case for workplace flexibility in business and public policy.

Kathleen Christensen is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coeditor of Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition, also from Cornell. Barbara Schneider is John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University and a Senior Fellow, NORC and The University of Chicago. She is coeditor of The AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research.

For the first time in American history, women compose half the paid workforce, so more than ever before, America needs well-paying flexible jobs that fit the family needs of the workers in them. In this book, two of the country's leading experts bring together cutting-edge research on just this issue. Workplace Flexibility is a must-read for scholars and concerned citizens alike.

Jerry A. Jacobs, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania:

Workplace Flexibility collects state-of-the art contributions to the field of work-family research. Leading scholars crystallize what is known and present new findings in an accessible manner on an impressive array of issues. By pulling so much research in this area together in a single volume, Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider have performed a most valuable service.