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A review essay on a book edited by Barbara Ehrenreich & Arlie Russell Hochschild, Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (New York: Holt, 2002). Adapted from the source document.

Based on 155 in-depth, tape-recorded interviews with parents & caregivers in the New York City & Los Angeles (CA) metropolitan areas, dilemmas arising between parents with egalitarian ideologies & caregivers are analyzed. One dilemma concerns the parents' authority over the caregiver. Parents may want to let the caregiver exercise her own authority & judgment; yet, to the extent that there are class differences between caregivers & parents, there are likely to be different definitions of quality child care. The second dilemma arises from parents' & caregivers' efforts to maintain some social distance while still wanting commitments that transcend employment obligations. Private forms of child care solve some problems but have limits that must be considered in assessing social policy options. 7 References. Adapted from the source document.

Investigates the gendered division of labor in the Boston (MA) antibusing movement in the mid-1970s, drawing on 1984-1986 interviews with antibusing activists. It is found that participation in the movement did not cause women to challenge its gendered division of political labor. Women who raised these issues were threatened with losing community legitimacy, which allowed female activists to participate in an enormous variety of political activities. This variety should not mask the relatively ordered environment of the movement, which divided political tasks along coherent lines of age & gender. Thus, the antibusing movement was structured in such a way that it did not allow women to contest the fundamental political framework of their political lives. It is concluded that, once the institutional supports for the movement eroded, women activists, although possessing new political skills, quickly reverted to traditional divisions of labor in their homes & communities. 40 References. D. Ryfe

Where are our children most at risk? Surprisingly, considering its bad reputation, bureaucracy helps protect them.

This paper is the latest installment in a series that is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and practice by developing classroom applications based on a current research article from the American Sociological Review. We discuss the ways in which a recent ASR paper on child care fatalities can be used to help students explore Burawoy's conception of "public" sociology in a manner that is consistent with a subject-centered pedagogical approach. To illustrate this approach, we offer three experiential exercises designed to facilitate the active engagement of students' hearts, as well as their minds, thereby linking our subject-centered approach to the increasingly popular notion of character education.