Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Barley, Stephen R. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Time, Technical Work, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- 2. Choosing to Work Less -- 3. A Professional and More -- 4. "Can You Do That?" Part·Time Work in Organizations -- 5. Going It Alone -- 6. "I'm...

Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard...

This paper examines the structure and development of sex segregation in the U.S. labor force between 1950 and 1979. The findings show that there has been a considerable degree of stability in the overall extent of sex segregation during the postwar period. There has been some tendency for...