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In American culture, the image of balancing work and family life is most often represented in the glossy shot of the executive-track woman balancing cell-phone, laptop, and baby In Weaving Work and Motherhood, Anita IIta Garey focuses not on the corporate executives so frequently represented in American ads and magazines but, rather, on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. <p>A sociologist and work and family expert, Garey situates her research in the health service industry. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers-clerical workers, janitorial workers, nurses, and nurse's aids-Garey analyzes what it means to be at once a mother who is employed and a worker with children.</p> <p>Within the limits of the resources available to them, women integrate their identities as workers and their identities as mothers by valuing their relation to work while simultaneously preserving cultural norms about what it means to be a good mother. Some of these women work non-day shifts in order to have the right blocks of time at home, including, for example, a registered nurse who explains how working the nigh

Author

Anita Ilta Garey

Publisher

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566397001

Subjects

Economics, Gender Studies, Business

Rating

3.33 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14