Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families. By Deborah M. Merrill. Greenwood Press. 1997. 232 pp. Cloth, $55.00

Social Forces ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1579-1580
Author(s):  
J. L. Angel
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Work Family

Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040
Author(s):  
T. Neal Garland ◽  
Deborah M. Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Work Family

Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families.

Social Forces ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1579
Author(s):  
Jacqueline L. Angel ◽  
Deborah M. Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Work Family

scholarly journals The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Edin ◽  
Timothy Nelson ◽  
Andrew Cherlin ◽  
Robert Francis
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
White Men ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Diverse Groups

In this essay, we explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw upon in-depth, life history interviews conducted in four metropolitan areas with racially and ethnically diverse groups of working-class men with a high school diploma but no four-year college degree. Between 2000 and 2013, we deployed heterogeneous sampling techniques in the black and white working-class neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; and the Philadelphia/Camden area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We screened to ensure that each respondent had at least one minor child, making sure to include a subset potentially subject to a child support order (because they were not married to, or living with, their child's mother). We interviewed roughly even numbers of black and white men in each site for a total of 107 respondents. Our approach allows us to explore complex questions in a rich and granular way that allows unanticipated results to emerge. These working-class men showed both a detachment from institutions and an engagement with more autonomous forms of work, childrearing, and spirituality, often with an emphasis on generativity, by which we mean a desire to guide and nurture the next generation. We also discuss the extent to which this autonomous and generative self is also a haphazard self, which may be aligned with counterproductive behaviors. And we look at racial and ethnic difference in perceptions of social standing.

scholarly journals The Ties Allowed to Bind: Kinship Legalities and Migration Restriction in the Interwar Americas

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Putnam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Family ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New System

AbstractNew immigration restrictions in the United States and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s made legal entry dependent on specific kinship formalities. This article explores the impact of the new system through a study of British Caribbean migrants. Because family patterns and the place of church and state sanction within them varied greatly by class—here, as in many parts of the world—the result was a curtailment of mobility that affected elites very little, and working-class would-be migrants enormously. In order to elucidate de facto patterns of exclusion, the author concludes, historians of transnational labor must begin paying more attention to the work “family” does.

D. Merrill. Caring for Elderly Parent: Juggling Work, Family and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997.

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-457
Author(s):  
Norah Keating
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Classe Sociale ◽  
Elderly Parent ◽  
Work Family

RÉSUMÉDans ce livre sur les soins dispensés aux parents âgés, l'auteur met Vaccent sur les approches contextuelles et de vie. Elle offre les reésultats d'une étude sur 50 dispensateurs de soins dans le nord-est des États-Unis. Les principales contributions du livre sont les résultats indiquant que les réseaux de soins sont déterminés par l'historique de la famille et par la juxtaposition des carrières des frè;res et sœurs du principal dispensateur de soins. On conteste que l'utilisation de la classe sociale comme variable explicative soit utile pour la compréhension des nuances de l'administration des soins. Les recommandations du livre qui sont fondées sur l'élaboration de politiques pour soutenir les families et pour rémunérer les dispensateurs de soins sont discutees à la lumière d'initiatives semblables entreprises au Canada.

scholarly journals Household Food Insufficiency, Financial Strain, Work–Family Spillover, and Depressive Symptoms in the Working Class: The Work, Family, and Health Network Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra A. Okechukwu ◽  
Alison M. El Ayadi ◽  
Sara L. Tamers ◽  
Erika L. Sabbath ◽  
Lisa Berkman
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Food Insufficiency ◽  
Health Network ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Work Family
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