Forgotten Families
Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 September 2007
- ISBN 9780195335248
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 168x233x21 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Forgotten Families is the first truly global account of how the changing conditions of work threaten children, adults, and the infirm. Based on interviews and survey data, it addresses problems faced by working families in both industrialized and developing countries, on issues from child health and development to the roles of growing inequalities.
MoreLong description:
In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey data from more than 55,000 families spanning five continents, Forgotten Families is the first truly global account of how the changing conditions of work threaten children, women and men, and the infirm. It addresses problems faced by working families in industrialized and developing countries alike, touching on issues of child health and development, barriers to parents getting and keeping jobs, problems families confront daily and in times of crisis, and the roles of growing inequalities. Rich in individual stories and deeply human, Heymann's book proposes innovative and imaginative ideas for solving the problems of the truly belabored together as a global community.
"Exhaustive in scope, meticulous in detail, her book is a damning indictment of what has gone wrong during "the race to the bottom" between developing countries amid globalizing markets. The book is peppered with heartbreaking stories gleaned from surveys of more than 55,000 families, depicting a worldwide squalor in which children, if they survive infancy, are usually doomed to re-enact their parents' lives at the sweatshop.... this volume will become a valuable primary source for policy makers."--Publishers Weekly
