Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy
ISBN: 9781610443265
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Business ; Sociology;

Now considered a classic in the field, this book first called attention to what Kanter has referred to as the "myth of separate worlds." Rosabeth Moss Kanter was one of the first to argue that the assumes separation between work and family was a myth and that research must explore the linkages between these two roles.


Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born 1943) is a tenured professor in business at Harvard Business School, where she holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship. In the 2007-2008 Academic school year, she taught a course to MBA students entitled Managing Change.

A 1967 Ph.D graduate of the University of Michigan, she has written numerous books on business management techniques, particularly change management. She also has a regular column in the Miami Herald. She was #11 in a 2000s survey of Top 50 Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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