Public Policies
for Working Families
mini-conference at ESS
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that there will be
8 panels at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings (March 17-20, 2005) in
Washington, DC on the broad topic of gender, work, and family. This
mini-conference is part of a great program under the theme of Sociology and
Public Policy.
Mini-conference panels are scheduled for
March 18 & 19. The panel topics are:
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Across the Life Course
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Bringing Community (Back) In (To
Work-Family Research)
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Comparative Perspectives on Caregivers'
Careers
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The Changing Work World
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Work, Family & Professional Careers
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Child Care & Elder Care: New Realities,
New Politics
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Visions of the Way Forward
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Moving Public Policy Forward
Panelists include many young, exciting
scholars plus people like Phyllis Moen, Joan Williams, Lynne Casper, Tom
Kochan, Sonya Michel, Jerry Jacobs, Mona Harrington, Mindy Fried, Marcie
Pitt-Catsouphes, Pat Roos, Anita Garey, Julia Wrigley, and many more
wonderful scholars and advocates.
The main program includes other interesting
sessions, including "Worker Control: New Struggles Over Workplace/Work Time
Autonomy" and "The Work-Family Agenda in US Labor Policy."
Please consider joining us for the meetings
in DC! To preregister or see the full program, go to
http://www.essnet.org/annualmeeting.htm
Best wishes,
Erin L. Kelly
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Minnesota
909 Social Sciences
267 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-0228
Fax: 612-624-7020
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