The Global Assault on Teaching Teachers and their Unions or Public and Private Families

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance

Author: Mary Compton

Increasingly public education’s character is under assault. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher union leaders from around the world fuses personal stories, research, and political analysis, explaining why such profound and damaging changes are being made to schools and teaching, and how teachers, their unions, and supporters of public education can make real the goal of quality education for all the world’s children.

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Public and Private Families: An Introduction

Author: Andrew J Cherlin

Nationally recognized for its sound scholarship and balanced approach and written by one of the leading authorities in the field, this text examines the family through two lenses: the familiar private family in which we live most of our personal lives, and the public family in which we, as adults, deal with broader societal issues such as the care of the elderly, the increase in divorce, and childbearing outside of marriage. The book looks at intimate personal concerns, such as whether to marry, as well as societal concerns, such as governmental policies that affect families. Distinctive chapters – Chapter 9, “Children and Parents;” Chapter 10, “The Elderly and Their Families;” and Chapter 14, “The Family, the State and Social Policy” – examine issues of great current interest, such as income assistance to poor families, the effects of out-of-home childcare, and the costs of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

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New edition of a sociology text presenting the concepts of the private family and the public family and examining how sociologists study them. Coverage encompasses the larger social structures in which family relations are embedded, and the activities of private life such as dating, courtship, and cohabitation. The final section deals with the consequences of conflict and of inequalities of power. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	List of Boxes
	Preface
1	Public and Private Families	3
2	The History of the Family	31
3	Gender and Families	67
4	Social Class and Families	99
5	Race, Ethnicity, and Families	125
6	The Family, the State, and Social Policy	159
7	Sexuality and Love	187
8	Paths to Family Formation	221
9	Spouses and Partners	259
10	Work and Families	287
11	Domestic Violence	319
12	Divorce	349
13	Remarriage	379
14	Children and Parents	407
15	The Elderly and Their Families	445
16	Social Change and Families	477
	Glossary	505
	Acknowledgments	511
	Photo Credits	515
	Index	517