Hitting Home
Author | : Gloria Albrecht |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0826416500 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780826416506 |
Rating | : 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "In a book that combines learning, eloquence, and wit, Albrecht explains how this paradox symbolizes the new face of family life in America's postindustrial economy. Hitting Home carefully documents the growing abandonment by business and government of their social responsibility to sustain the well-being of families. She exposes "family friendly" policies as being in fact policies that are friendly primarily to the profit-oriented goals of the corporate world. Business strategies, touted as the new methods of efficiency, reveal the fundamentally anti-family nature of an economy designed from its origins to exclude those authentic values that arise from caring relationships."--BOOK JACKET.