" Family Caregivers: A Shadow Workforce in the Geriatric Health Care System? "
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, December 2007; 32: 1005 - 1041. Ann Bookman & Mona Harrington, (2007).
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" The Family Caregiver Handbook: Finding Elder Care Resources in Massachusetts "
Published by the MIT Workplace Center to help caregivers navigate the elder care system, this Handbook covers healthcare, social services, financial and legal planning, housing, transportation, and more. Written with the caregiver in mind, the Handbook features a special section on caregiver support services, a Directory of organizations by city or town, and a Glossary called “Eldercare Terms from A to Z.” Please note that the printed Handbook is out of stock, but all of the content can be accessed online. To view the website, kindly click on link below.
CAREGIVER HANDBOOK WEBSITE

" Caring for the Caregivers: Improving Resources for Elder Caregivers in Massachusetts " November 14, 2007
This MIT Report offers a ten-point plan to start a statewide conversation on change, a research summary on the role that families play as a "shadow workforce" in geriatric healthcare system, and expert commentary on the issues surrounding family caregiver support programs.
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" Women Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership " Spring 2007
Report of MIT Workplace Center Surveys on Comparative Career Decisions and Attrition Rates of Women and Men in Massachusetts Law Firms
—Mona Harrington, MIT Workplace Center, Helen Hsi, Sloan School of Management

Prepared for:
"The Equality Commission," "Women's Bar Association," "Boston Bar Association" and the "Massachusetts Bar Association."
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" Advancing Women in the Profession: Action Plans for Women's Bar Associations "
Report on the Conference, June 11-12, 2007, Boston, MA
—Mona Harrington, MIT Workplace Center
—Joan C. Williams, UC Hastings Center for WorkLife Law
—Cynthia Thomas Calvert, Project for Attorney Retention & Center for WorkLife Law
—Holly English, National Association of Women Lawyers
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" Self-scheduling for hospital nurses: an attempt and its difficulties "
L. Bailyn, R. Collins and Y. Song (2007); Journal of Nursing Management Vol. 15, Issue 1, Pages 72-77, January 2007.
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		"BOSTON COLLEGE SLOAN WORK & FAMILY RESEARCH NETWORK NEWSLETTER" [Newsletter] "Marrying Research & Intervention in the Healthcare Industry;" By Lotte Bailyn, Ann Bookman & Mona Harrington. DOWNLOAD THE NEWSLETTER HERE

		"MIT's Workplace Center Explores Win-Win Solutions to Work/Life Conflicts" Mark Dwortzan, MIT Report. DOWNLOAD THE PDF

		"New Center rethinks the Workplace" MIT Sloan Report. DOWNLOAD THE PDF

		"Daily Labor Report" "Family Support Benefits Not the Norm In Most Labor Contracts, MIT Report Finds." Ann Bookman DOWNLOAD THE PDF

		"MIT Faculty Newsletter" "Integrating Work & Family Life: Research at the MIT Workplace Center." Ann Bookman DOWNLOAD THE PDF

		"MIT Tech Talk; Vol. 47, No. 10" October 30, 2002; "Views of Work and Motherhood Must change, MIT Speakers Say" DOWNLOAD THE PDF

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"Boston Globe Editorial: Bringing Family Values to the Workplace"

"Bringing Family Values to the Workplace," Read the full editorial by Thomas A. Kochan as it appeared in the August 29, 2004, Sunday edition of the Boston Globe.
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"Work-Personal Life Harmonisation: Visions and Pragmatic Strategies for Change"

Visitors to this site will be interested in an international project on Work-Personal Life Integration: Looking Backward to Go Forwards, under the auspices of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research in London. Rhona Rapoport, the Director of the Institute, along with Suzan Lewis and Richenda Gambles have been conducting interviews in a number of countries, including the US, western Europe, South Africa, India, and Japan. They ended the project with a scenario meeting in Windsor, UK attended by Lotte Bailyn, Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center. At the scenario meeting, participants reported the current conditions around work and personal life in their countries, as well as their expectations for the future. Finally, they tried to visualize what ideally they would want in the future and what barriers and enablers exist in a path toward that ideal. Data from all the countries represented as well from the scenario meeting in Windsor are reported in Work-Personal Life Harmonisation: Visions and Pragmatic Strategies for Change.
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"Labor-Management Partnerships for Working Families"

"Labor-Management Partnerships for Working Families," Read about the activities and accomplishments of three labor-management partnerships .
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BOSTON GLOBE OP ED ARTICLE: "A New Deal for Labor Day"

Op Ed piece by MIT Workplace Center Co-Director, Thomas A. Kochan entitled, "A New Deal for Labor Day."
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"Integrating Work and Family Life: A Holistic Approach" Lotte Bailyn, MIT; Robert Drago, Penn State, and Thomas A. Kochan, MIT

"Integrating Work and Family Life: A Holistic Approach," recognizes the effect of work-family pressures on society and explores the low value placed on care work.
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"Work and Employment Relations: A Doctoral Student's View" Susan C. Eaton

"Work and Employment Relations: A Doctoral Student's View " Reprinted from Perspectives on Work, Vol. 1, No. 2.
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Who Cares?: Building Cross-Sector Partnerships for Family Care

Highlights the efforts of individuals and institutions that are making a difference through a variety of family care initiatives.
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"Early Childhood Education for All: A Wise Investment." A Conference Sponsored by the Legal Momentum's Family Initiative and the MIT Workplace Center.

Co-Sponsored by The National Economic Development and Law Center, The Early Care and Education Collaborative and the Center for Policy Alternatives.
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Starting In Our Own Backyards Ann Bookman (Routledge, 2004)

Lily Huang, a scientist, occasionally takes a "sick day" to volunteer in her three-year-old's childcare center, but her supervisor says "no" to a regular volunteer commitment. Mike Hallowell, a production worker coaches his son’s Little League team, but he can’t get to afternoon games since being promoted. Yet Helen Rafferty, a middle manager, is able to volunteer in her children’s school now that her company introduced an alternative work schedule. In Starting In Our Own Backyards, Ann Bookman uses such stories to challenge our understanding of the current structure of work, family time, and community involvement.

For close to five years, Bookman followed the lives of forty biotechnology workers and their families. She documents how their inflexible schedules strain their family lives, and how their lack of job security has propelled them to seek support outside of the workplace. She discovered that these workers are building new forms of community to buffer the ups and downs of the “new economy.” They are creating durable support systems—via childcare centers, religious institutions, schools, neighborhood groups, and parent-to-parent networks—countering the view that community involvement is declining precipitously.

Bookman argues that current debates about civic engagement can only be resolved by understanding the new realities of work and family. These changes demand that we expand social responsibility for families, strengthen community institutions, and develop new models for combining paid and unpaid work. And as she shows in her vivid analysis, employers, unions, government, faith-based institutions, and community groups all have a role to play in supporting working families and reinvigorating civil society.
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Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance. Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K. Fletcher, and Bettye H. Pruitt, Jossey Bass, 2002.

Everyone who struggles to meet the demands of work and personal-life responsibilities knows how tough it is. This book shows that it is the deeply engrained cultural separation of work and personal life that has limited our ability to deal effectively with this conflict. Based on work with a dozen organiztions, the authors detail workplace interventions that meet the goals of work-personal life integration, equity, and effectiveness.
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Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market.
Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard M. Locke, and Michael J. Piore, MIT Press, 2001.

The American labor market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive market. The impetus for this book is the absence of a serious national debate about these issues.
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Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics.
Mona Harrington (Routledge, 2000)

Who is now caring for America's children, for the elderly, the sick, the disabled? According to Mona Harrington, the traditional system of caregiving - until now almost entirely dependent on the unpaid labor of women in the home - is in a chaotic state of disrepair, as women, in large numbers, move into the workplace. Harrington issues an urgent call for new political conversations about assigning responsibility for this important part of the "general welfare" that the Constitution charges us to promote. Care must now, Harrington argues, become the joint responsibility of the family, the private employer, and the various levels of government.
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