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Work & Family : Essays from the "Work & Family" Column of The Wall Street Journal |
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Work & Family is an extensive and fascinating collection of Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger's essays on balancing work and family life. Shellenbarger's beat is the two-career family with contemporary parents wired to fax, phone, and beeper in case the kids have an emergency. In these 90 brief essays, Shellenbarger covers tremendous ground. She describes the travails of the new two-worker family and the relationship between a parent's job situation and a child's happiness. She explores in depth the "highwire walk" work world's joys and pitfalls of telecommuting, job sharing, family-friendly and -unfriendly firms, and on-site and inadequate day care. Later essays focus on eldercare and the "sandwich generation." In "Work Gets Wilder as Employees Insist on Stable Family Life," Shellenbarger describes a father commuting 700 miles a week to keep his daughters in their familiar school situations. In "How to Look Like a Workaholic While Still Having a Life," she discusses managers' obsession with "face-time" and the hysterical tactics that hard-working but not always present employees use to circumvent the issue. Shellenbarger's essays are snappy, funny, political, and precise. The fighting tone of these pieces provides a great antidote to the numbing poison of family fatigue, fluorescent lights, and cubicles.
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