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Download e-book for iPad: Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer

By Madonna Harrington Meyer

Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish leading edge ebook Award awarded through the Gerontological Society of America

Young operating moms will not be the one ones who're suffering to stability kin existence and careers. Many middle-aged American girls face this challenge as they supply regimen childcare for his or her grandchildren whereas pursuing careers and attempting to make ends meet. Employment between middle-aged ladies is at an all-time excessive.  In a similar method that ladies who decrease employment hours while elevating their teenagers adventure discounts in wage, rate reductions, and private and non-private pensions, the moms of these similar girls, as grandmothers, are rearranging hours to keep up their grandchildren, experiencing extra lack of wage and lowered outdated age pension accumulation. Madonna Harrington Meyer’s Grandmothers at Work, established totally on forty eight in-depth interviews carried out in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who juggle operating and minding their grandchildren, explores the concepts of, and affects on, operating grandmothers.             

 

While all the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer’s publication are happy to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting paintings schedules, utilizing holiday and ailing go away time, gutting retirement money owed, and suspending retirement to deal with grandchildren. a few easily are looking to do that; others do it partially simply because they've got extra safeguard and suppleness at the activity than their daughters do at their particularly new jobs.  Many are sequential grandmothers, taking care of one grandchild after the opposite as they're born, in very extensive sorts of grandmothering.  a few additionally document that they're removing retirement out of monetary necessity, partially a result of quantity of monetary support they're delivering their grandchildren. ultimately, a few also are taking good care of their frail older mom and dad or unwell spouses simply as intensively. such a lot count on to proceed feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid paintings for a few years ahead of their retirement. Grandmothers at Work presents a different point of view on a phenomenon confronted via hundreds of thousands of girls in the USA this day.

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