Unfinished Business by Ruth Milkman

Unfinished Business by Ruth Milkman

Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004.

I believe the book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand and overcome the challenges to implementing successful work-family policies in the United StatesAs the authors suggest in their title, considerable unfinished business remains both in California and in the nation as a whole.

-- Candace Howes * ILRReview *

In Unfinished Business, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum tell the story of the political struggle that led to the advent of [Paid Family Leave] and explore the effects and limitations of the program in the first several years following its implementation. The modest length of this book is deceptive, as the authors manage to convey the past, present, and future of this policy with great depth and the support of several fascinating data sources.. Since state-level policies are often used as testing ground for changes to federal policy, this book is necessary reading for advocates of national paid family leave in the United States.

-- Amy Armenia * American Journal of Sociology *

These books can be recommended to academicsstudents and policy makers. Milkman and Appelbaum's examination of one policy development in one place is necessarily narrower in focus but offers more depth than Kröger and Yeandle’s cross-national analysis.

-- Narjes Mehdizadeh * Work, employment and security *

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Academic Director of CUNY's Murphy Labor Institute. She is the author of several books, including the prizewinning Gender at Work and L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. She is the editor of Organizing Immigrants and coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and Working for Justice, all from Cornell. Eileen Appelbaum is Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She is the coauthor of Manufacturing Advantage: Why Higher Performance Work Systems Pay Off and The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States, both from Cornell.

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ISBN 13	9780801478956
ISBN 10	0801478952
Title	Unfinished Business
Author	Ruth Milkman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2013-11-05
Number of pages	168
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