Forced Labor: What's Wrong with Balancing Work and Family

Forced Labor: What's Wrong with Balancing Work and Family
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Forced Labor: What's Wrong with Balancing Work and Family
Brian C. Robertson
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The last thing parents should do is try to “balance” work and family. A revolutionary shift of time and attention from home to the workplace has left the family on the ropes. Researcher Brian Robertson shows how a potent combination of ideology, government policy, and corporate coercion has driven parents from home—and how they can find their way back.

Confronting the overwhelming evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Mr. Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The power of feminism seems the obvious answer, but until the 1960s, the women's movement zealously fought against mothers' being forced to abandon their homes for wages. The real answer, Mr. Robertson reveals, is the transformation of the way we think about work itself. What we once undertook to support our families we now pursue as a means of self-fulfillment.

Along with this new view of work have come coercive new policies in business and government—always labeled “family-friendly”—that have deliberately stacked the deck against one-income families. While Democrats embrace the feminist mania for working mothers, Republicans will not threaten the corporate grip on parental priorities. Mr. Robertson responds with an outline of sane family policy designed to help mothers and fathers prevail against the anti-family current.

Forced Labor is the first book to challenge the idea of balancing work and family. Work belongs in the service of the family. And nothing less than our children's happiness and security is at stake.

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This book changes everything.......2003-05-15

I'm a 20 year-old highly motivated student at a prestigious university. My entire life I've worked diligently so I could have a successful career. However, after I began reading this book, my thinking has been turned on its head. Now I can see that I've been motivated by all the wrong things: ego, self-aggrandizement, money, and status. This book has helped me understand all that motherhood used to be and could be. It is not a banal existence; there are beautiful possibilites open to the imaginitive mind. Our country was founded on the Protestant ethic that the most noble thing one could do is to be selfless, to give everything you have to your children and your family. My words are like gravel in the mouth compared to Robertson's eloquence. I wish I could capture the beauty of his words here. Please, read this book. It changes everything.

Extremely informative.......2003-05-10

Robertson shows how the best care is maternal care and why society is in denial of this fact. I found this book very informative and enlightening, and has forever changed the way I look at alternative child care and the media, whose refusal to tell the truth about parenting is causing the millions of children to be neglected.

Time for a rethink.......2003-05-09

The West is struggling with the related issues of women in the workforce, childcare, maternity leave, and family breakdown. The usual wisdom is to say that we just need to try harder to balance work commitments with family responsibilities. But Brian Robertson, a writer living in Washington DC, believes the answers lie elsewhere.

Indeed, from a historical perspective, the current crisis is really an anomaly. The modern feminist movement of the 60s taught that the only good woman is a career woman, and that homemaking and motherhood were to be despised and fled from. But interestingly, the womenýs movement prior to that fought for the right of a mother to stay at home with her young children, and not be conscripted into the paid workplace.

Thus the struggle for those in the earlier years of the womenýs movement was to protect women from the encroachment of market forces, and to prevent them from being forced into career at the expense of their families. Motherhood and homemaking, in other words, were seen as honorable and valuable ends in themselves.

But with the late 60s and onwards, the new wave of feminists took a totally different line: only in the paid workforce can a woman find meaning, freedom and dignity. Thus the vitriolic attack on mothers and the family. Betty Friedan therefore could call the home a "comfortable concentration camp" while Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown could label a mother and housewife as "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger ý a bum".

A womanýs freedom, said these feminists, meant that a woman should and could be independent both in the economic and the reproductive realms. Women just do not need men, and are better off without them. Establishing a career and gaining financial independence is the first goal of the modern woman. And millions of Western women bought this line of thought.

Of course now the inherent contradictions are coming all too clear. Women who were told that they could have it all are now fining that they have very little. They may have a good job, but they have no husband or boyfriend, no children and no family. And many today are deeply regretful of this fact.

But it is not just women who have suffered at the hands of feminist orthodoxy. Children have been the big losers. Millions of children today are being raised by strangers. Yet all the social science research shows that children desperately need their mums and dads. No day care system can ever compete with the love and attention of a mother and a father.

Yet as Robertson documents, while the social research on all this is quite clear, very few are willing to promote the findings, for fear of incurring the wrath of feminists and of making working mums feel guilty. So although the research is clear, that attachment is important for infants and mother-child bonding is crucial, millions of mothers are ignoring the evidence, and their maternal instincts, and are abandoning their children in droves.

The harmful effects of extended periods of time for young children in day care are well documented in this book. Even child care workers admit that they would not dare to leave their own children in day care. Yet many mothers have been so indoctrinated into believing that their needs and desires must come first, that they are offering their children second best.

And seeking to alleviate the problems by better day care, more workplace flexibility, or seeking to obtain an unobtainable balance between work and family just is not sufficient. And it is not just short-sighted governments offering these inadequate solutions. The corporate world in effect has bought the feminist myth as well that women can have it all. But the truth is, they canýt have it all, at least not at the same time. Thus more corporate day care centres will not solve the bigger problems.

Indeed, the corporations are shooting themselves in the foot here. The really productive worker is the worker who has a happy and satisfying home life. But the corporate world, even with generous paid maternity leave policies, cannot stop the hemorrhaging of the family. Maternal deprivation is harmful to children, and unhappy children make for unhappy families, and unhappy families result in poor workers.

Governments also lose, as they seek to press women into the paid workplace, and do not deal with the root causes as to why so many families are forced to have two incomes. By bribing mums into the paid work place, whether by child care subsidies or other financial incentives, the growing problem of falling fertility rates, for example, will only increase. Less people mean less taxable income, and the inability to pay for expensive social welfare programs.

Thus both governments and businesses need to radically rethink what family-friendly workplaces actually mean. Robertson concludes by proposing some radical measures to put the interests of families first. These are predicated on the principle that human societies need the traditional family structure with a mother as the principal caregiver. Marriage and family are non-negotiable first principles. If that is accepted, then the following steps can be explored:

-Treat families as a unit in the tax code
-End "no-fault" divorce
-Replace the current welfare system with one that does not encourage illegitimacy and undermine intact families
-Pare back affirmative action legislation and programs
-Give all parents, not just those in the paid work place, child care credits or tax breaks.

These and other proposals, will help to ensure that real family-friendly policies are pursued. Yet Robertson knows that legal and economic change alone is not enough. The much harder cultural element needs to be addressed. But we have to start somewhere. And this volume is a good beginning point.

An excellent book by a clear and reasoned thinker.......2002-03-22

...This book is a wonderful distillation of Brian's views on the workplace, political and social movements and most interestingly his work here is a roadmap for the analytical process he undergoes to arrive at his conclusions.

Brian's book is an outstanding example of constructive critical thinking...one feels envigorated, enlightened, and most importantly tested and forced to confront deeply held truths and defend those ideas within that are found lacking.

It is a book to be proud of and I enjoyed it, unreservedly.

Agree with him or not, give him a chance to make his case in this book which addresses the foundation of a polite society, family.

Help in Understanding Some Negative Trends.......2001-04-09

I believe that this book should be required reading for anyone who is concerned about the debilitating trends in our society: students shooting their classmates, breakdowns in family relationships, high divorce rates, and out-of-wedlock childbirths. The author presents significant evidence to show that these may all be symptomatic of adult America's obsession with work outside of the home, and subsequently leaving young America to try and invent its own culture and morality.

Recent studies have shown that today's youth suffer from a far higher rate of mental illness than those who grew up just a couple of generations ago. Social disconnectedness and a sense of impending doom have driven many of our youth toward immediate gratification and away from a long-term interest in education and work. At the same time, technological change and the knowledge explosion makes a successful vocation even harder to attain. This is especially true among young men, whose participation rates in postsecondary education, in the electoral process, and in civic activities are at an all-time low and declining rapidly.

Although Robertson's book is deep and well documented, it is very readable. He is at his best in the chapter where he discusses the contrast between the work of a full-time mother with that of a "career woman." Homemaking, which was considered the ideal by feminists as recently as the middle of the twentieth century, is now looked upon as demeaning and destructive of self-esteem, while a "career" outside of the home is viewed as something highly desirable and worthy of achievement. "The work of raising children requires constant hidden sacrifice, unacknowledged and unrewarded by society, often unacknowledged and unrewarded by one's own family-particularly the children themselves. ... A society that measures success exclusively in terms of material or professional attainment is unlikely to accord much status to the hidden work of the mother in the home."

Especially upsetting to those who believe that the traditional family is the foundation of civil society is the palette of economic incentives that government and business offer to the mother who chooses to select "professional" childcare. Childcare credits, tax-exempt childcare flexible spending accounts, and higher IRA savings limits abound for the two-earner family, while the mother who elects to raise her own children receives no benefits in exchange for sacrificing a dual income and striving to make ends meet on a single income.

Robertson offers criticism for Republicans and Democrats alike. Neither major political party has found a way to support the concept of the traditional family, despite their continual touting of "family values" and "family-friendly legislation" that further drives wedges between mothers and their children. Instead of discouraging divorce and/or out-of-wedlock childbearing, welfare policies have forced mothers to accept out-of-the-home childcare so that they can go to work full time.

"There's No Place Like Work" offers a well documented examination of current destructive trends in family and workplace dynamics. It is certain to stimulate provocative discussion, and I hope it will receive the wide readership it deserves.

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How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. Devil in the Mountain is the story of one scientist, author Simon Lamb, and his quest for the key to this great geological mystery.

Lamb and a small team of geologists have spent much of the last decade exploring the rugged Bolivian Andes, the second highest mountain range on Earth--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions. The author's account is both travelogue and detective story, describing how he and his colleagues have pursued a trail of clues in the mountains, hidden beneath the rocky landscape. Here, the local silver miners strive to appease the spirit they call Tio-the devil in the mountain.

Traveling through Bolivia's back roads, the team has to cope with the extremes of the environment, and survive in a country on the verge of civil war. But the backdrop to all these adventures is the bigger story of the Earth and how geologists have gone about uncovering its secrets. We follow the tracks of the dinosaurs, who never saw the Andes but left their mark on the shores of a vast inland sea that covered this part of South America more than sixty-five million years ago, long before the mountains existed. And we learn how to find long lost rivers that once flowed through the landscape, how continents are twisted and torn apart, and where volcanoes come from.

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The experience of fieldwork.......2007-04-04

This book accurately reflects how geological fieldwork is often done and for this reason would be an excellent read for a geology student or interested layperson. Lamb's exposition of tectonics is very clear and he obviously has a gift for explaining geology to the non-specialist. The only thing that I didn't like was the implication that the Oxford team was the only one of consequence working in the Andes - something that from personal experience I happen to know was not the case.

fault lines in South America.......2007-01-03

If you're interested in something different and interesting, this book is for you. It reads quickly and is an overview of plate tectonics/geology which even a layman such as I can follow.

How rocks in Bolivia affect your choice of vacation.......2006-11-14

Here's something to chew on: If it weren't for the existence of the Andes Mountains, Hawaii would be out of business.
The argument is way too complicated to summarize in a brief review, but Oxford geologist Simon Lamb presents it with admirable clarity in "Devil in the Mountain."
He hardly mentions Hawaii, actually, but the implication is clear enough: The Andes began growing 40 million years ago, at the same time that the Antarctic ice sheet began growing; and these events were causally linked -- together (with lots of other complications) they ended the Warm Ages and introduced the Ice Ages we live in.
If follows then, that if the whole world were still warm, there wouldn't be much reason to visit Hawaii.
It is extraordinary how recently scientists got to the point where they could make such an argument. In the past four decades, even non-geologists have learned to think that mountains arise where two giant plates collide, driven by currents of molten rock miles beneath the surface.
And yet, thought Lamb, as recently as 1989, when he began a 10-year research project centered on Bolivia, it cannot be that simple.
There are places where plates collide but high mountains do not rise. And, where they do, why do they take the shape they do?
Like any good scientific theory, plate tectonics created more mysteries than it solved.
The new mysteries were, of course, at a more profound level of explanation.
In particular, the research of Lamb and others has opened the question of whether "the rise of great mountain ranges can significantly change the planet's climate." These days, everything turns out to be about global warming.
The short answer is, yes. But it takes a lot of legwork to get there.
Lamb's account, designed to suck non-geologists into the mystery, is enlivened with brief anecdotes of working in some of the roughest, poorest country in the world.
But "it was earthquake prone, always a good sign to a geologist."
So he went searching for the devil -- Tio, the wicked spirit of the mountains whose caprices are appeased by the Bolivian miners. Tio is an excessively manly demon, a point not mentioned by Lamb, whose approach is anything but sensational, although the implications of his (and others') research are.
Toward the end of his research, Lamb was led to "the extraordinary thought that the temperature of the water in the oceans can ultimately control the raising of large portions of the Earth's crust."
We've come a long way now from the explanation that mountains were made by heroes throwing rocks at each other.

Devil in the Mountain: A search for origin of the Andes.......2006-11-10

Excellent book; a little too much personal history and not enough Andes geology; also limited mostly to Bolivia section of the Andes. Well worth the read for those interested in mountain building.

Between science and personal adventure..........2006-07-10

I bought this book because, as a geologist myself, I am getting interested in the dynamics and tectonic controls of fluvial "megafans" developed along the Andean chain. I thought this little work, straddling the border between a popularization of geotectonics and personal travel diaries, could help me break the ice with the geological context of Bolivia and surrounds... Spot on!
Lamb did a great job, whether you look at it from the technical point of view or from a layman's perspective. Of course the geological insights to gain here are just very basic, they are meant to inform the uninitiated, but the style and the motivation with which a geologist's thoughts are reported, well, they kind of make me proud of my research... (Which I already was anyway!) Maybe the links between orogeny in the Andes and global climatic interactions are way too simplistically explained, and some people might get tricked into believing the climate system is really that! easy and predictable... I doubt... But that's a kind of problem you run into when trying to simplify to the extreme, opening a door for the newbies. No fuss then...
If you want to gain a feeling of what geological fieldwork feels like, if you'd like to learn something really cool on how rocks and mountains develop and behave through time on this planet, and maybe if you could use some insider's advice on how to get about in Bolivia (you never know where research might take you some day eh...), then this is a fun, quick, informative and emotionally rewarding read. I guess we're still far from really having understood the whole story about the Andes, but as Lamb shows, from his very personal point of view, sometimes the journey can be more important than reaching your destination too quickly... It all has to grow inside of you...

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". . . captures the spirit of the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960's and 1970's and tells the story of Jones' life as Ginny ("the first hippie") drifts into and out of it."-Publishers Marketplace in their "Deal of the Day" column.

"A soothingly disturbing bittersweet elixir. By turns deliciously funny and poignantly painful, it wanders and rambles in and out of the messiness of life. It's real. It's human. You will be different for having immersed yourself in it. Ginny Good has the soul and guts and truth of a classic of American Literature."-Donna McDougle, author and book reviewer

Gerard Jones is the infamous creator of the Everyone Who's Anyone in Trade Publishing website.

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This is a great story written very well.......2006-12-16

Lots of people have lots to say about this book. Some love or hate the author, some claim to have known the book's heroine and therefore feel a sense of possession over the subject matter. Scr*w the lot of them, I say! This is a great story and it is so very well written. That's all that needs to be said. I mean, a story that can maintain the chatty companionship of Gerard Jones's voice and make you want you to turn each page belies the effort and skill that has gone into the creation of this book. And so what if he has gone to great lengths to publicise it on the internet - more kudos to Gerard, I say. Buy it, read it and make up your own mind - what you won't be is disappointed.

It comes down to this.........2006-10-12

While checking the reviews for "Ginny Good" just ignore the one stars because they don't reflect how good the book is they reflect how some people feel about the author of Ginny good. Lots of people don't like Gerard Jones. Lots of people didn't like John Lennon either and for the same reason. If you want something different than the old "boy meets girl" story then buy "Ginny Good". It leaves you with a certain feeling you won't be able to shake..and the writing is original. He writes the way somebody would speak to you..no bull. I loved it.

A Reader.......2006-07-03

This book is the autobiography of a self-centered egocentric who hoped to sell a few more books by weaving Ginny Good's name throughout. Mr. Jones' take on Ginny Good's background is mostly fiction (her name is spelled correctly), which, of course, makes the verity of any part of the rest of the story suspect. Taken overall, the book is an insult to a all around wonderful human being.
In Short, Ginny Good is a novel, no more, no less, and not a well written one at that.

Ginny Very Good.......2006-02-20

If you order this book hoping for a trippy-hippie fairy tale, you are going to be disappointed. More than being about the 60s, Ginny Good seems to happen in spite of the 60s: "It was groovy. It was far out. It was over."

The characterization is the real meat of the story. At times brutally funny, at other times emotionally devastating, this memoir-esque novel follows the thread of three friends as they weave in and out of one another's lives. Each of them seems to be wondering, "How can I settle into a normal life after this?" They always want too much from one another, and the fallout of their entanglements is often catastrophic.

Jones strikes the tone of someone whose experience was so authentic that he does not need to sermonize or idealize it. The 60s happened like every other decade, and people happened along with it. His narration is excellent, and his direct, punchy sentences effortlessly carry the load of every emotion from bleak absurdity to childlike wonder. For anyone who has ever loved and lost or simply wondered, "How do I go on after this?" Gerard Jones shows us that time doesn't heal wounds so much as language does.

Where does Amazon get off censoring its reviews?.......2006-02-15

A week ago GINNY GOOD had 61 reader reviews at Amazon.com. Now it has 36. Amazon arbitrarily got rid of 25 reviews. What's up with that? One "reader" review that Amazon in its wisdom didn't get rid of talked about GG as a memoir about pro wrestling in the 60s and is truly funny insofar as GG doesn't really have a lot to do with pro wrestling in the 60s. Another "reader" review Amazon didn't get rid of is seriously silly since the "reviewer" (Sue Jennings) read only "a few" pages (which is very likely a lie) and yet it was one of the reviews that Amazon in its wisdom chose to "spotlight." The 25 reviews Amazon got rid of were far more valid than the silly stuff "Sue Jennings" said. I have copies of all 25 of the reviews Amazon expurgated and would very much like them to be put back where they belong. I can also think of several reviews that should be "spotlighted" instead of the idiotic ones that are. Why doesn't Amazon just write its own reviews of all the products it has for sale? Why give the false impression that "customers" have any say whatsoever? Aren't there enough lying liars? Aren't there too many fraudulent businesses and con artists and shabby reporting practices? Don't people get taken to the cleaners often enough? What's wrong with the "truth?" From the mud grows the lotus. People like living in a police state. It's safe. Well, you know, as long as you go by the rules that are in vogue at any given moment. There are several sides to every story. I'd prefer to see them all and make up my own mind rather than having it made up for me...for my own good, of course. G.

THE CANCER LIFELINE COOKBOOK: GOOD NUTRITION, RECIPES, AND RESOURCES TO OPTIMIZE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH CANCER

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THE CANCER LIFELINE COOKBOOK: GOOD NUTRITION, RECIPES, AND RESOURCES TO OPTIMIZE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH CANCER
MS, RD, WITH GINNY SMITH KIMBERLY MATHAI
Manufacturer: SASQUATCH BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VVB354

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* Ten "Super Foods" that may protect against and fight cancer * Simple ways to bring healthy eating into your lifestyle * Suggestions for reducing the side effects of cancer treatment * Strategies for gaining control and a sense of well-being

In good company: adoration isn't so much about adoring as it is about spending time with a friend.(practicing catholic) : An article from: U.S. Catholic

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In good company: adoration isn't so much about adoring as it is about spending time with a friend.(practicing catholic) : An article from: U.S. Catholic
Ginny Moyer
Manufacturer: Claretian Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from U.S. Catholic, published by Claretian Publications on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 775 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In good company: adoration isn't so much about adoring as it is about spending time with a friend.(practicing catholic)
Author: Ginny Moyer
Publication: U.S. Catholic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Claretian Publications
Volume: 70 Issue: 8 Page: 49(1)

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A package of goodies: Politeness and good manners, pretty, strong and clean (Her Ginny books)

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A package of goodies: Politeness and good manners, pretty, strong and clean (Her Ginny books)
Mary Frances Lamport
Manufacturer: Ginny's Copying Service
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006X0Q6Y

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