Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment

摘要: this book. It engages with theoretical debatesabout materialist versus post-materialist poli-tics, old new social movements, and thelike, but does not get bogged down in them,instead staying firmly rooted the empiricalmaterials at hand. also very productivelyapplies resource mobilization theory of so-cial movements to develop an original po-tentially powerful analysis coalitions.Another strength book is that it movesbeyond static analyses workers’ environ-mentalists’ interests, look ways whichconceptions interest vary over time acrossindustries. Both cooperation conflict arestructurally possible, Obach argues, so im-portant issue way which particular setsof organizations define their interests a par-ticular juncture. The historical chapter espe-cially good regard, reminding us thatlabor-environmental new—and often rests on complex set ofinterests, goals, compromises.Obach nice job debunkingstrong cultural explanations locate dif-ficulty coalition work conflicting class cul-tures. He shows these havegarnered much power from focus onthe “timber wars” Pacific Northwest, whileignoring many idiosyncrasies in-dustry. As alternative, convincinglyargues what appears be culturalconflict really differing organiza-tional procedures, more hierarchicaland rigid decision-making style unions beingrooted legal mandates.The main weakness theevidence key causal arguments are notalways well connected. For instance, one themain de-fine scopes widely likely toengage work. This makes sensedescriptively, as argument bor-ders tautology, especially since having wideorganizational range defined working onboth environmental social/workplace is-sues. We left only hints about whyorganizations goals broadlyor narrowly first place. oforganizational learning weak when itcomes explaining