Book Review: Finding Time by Heather Boushey

Authors

  • Eileen Appelbaum

Abstract

In Finding Time: The Economics of Work–Life Conflict, Heather Boushey uses the economics of supply and demand to make the case that work–family policies benefit the economy even as they meet the needs of working families. In discussing the latter, she avoids oversimplifications about the concerns and challenges facing working families. Instead, she provides facts and figures that illustrate how middle-class, low-income, and professional families have experienced the tectonic shifts in the economy over the past three decades. Readers can see themselves and their families in this book.