Unequal time : gender, class, and family in employment schedules / Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Unpredictability and unequal control in a web of time -- Concepts and methods -- The context: occupations and organizations -- Setting the official schedule -- Unpredictability and churning: is there a fixed schedule? -- Adding time to the official schedule -- Taking time off: sick leaves and vacations -- Families and jobs: creating and responding to unpredictability -- Unequal families: class shapes women's responses to unpredictability -- Unequal families: class shapes men's responses to unpredictability -- Strategies to address unpredictability -- Finding solutions in the web of time: coworkers -- The push of the family and the pull of the job -- Inequality and the normal unpredictability of time.

"Unequal Time investigates the connected schedules of four health sector occupations: professional doctors and nurses, and working-class EMTs and nursing assistants. While the work-family literature mostly examines the hours people work, Clawson and Gerstel delve into the process through which schedules are set, negotiated, and contested. They show how workers in all four occupations experience the effects of schedule uncertainty but do so in distinct ways, largely shaped by the intersection of gender and class. Doctors, who are largely male and professional, have significant control over their schedules, though they often claim otherwise, and tend to work long hours because they earn respect from their peers for doing so. By contrast, nursing assistants, primarily female and working-class, work demanding hours because they face penalties for taking time off, no matter how valid the reasons. Without institutional support, they often turn to coworkers to help create more orderly lives."--Publisher's Web site

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