We are not the first generation to feel the pressure of j uggling full-time employment with what can seem like a second shift at home. Nor are we the first to argue that the fundamental structures and norms of the work world must be rethought if working families are to thrive. As I detail in my recent book, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace justice and Social Rights in Modem America (2004), in the decades following World War II labor union women launched a movement for work-family reform that carries on today. It was that generation of working women who first confronted the dilemmas of combining caregiving and breadwinning, and who first devised work-family politics with the needs of low-income women in mind.
