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Chapter 9: An African-American male worker takes paternity leave after the baby is born and is ribbed at work; mostly women care about family time.

Chapter 10: "Support staff" have a tougher time getting flextime off for their families.

Chapter 11: Becky (single mother) has her mother caring for her children but Becky, an attractive younger woman, deals with jealous stares from female co-workers; problems multiply. Sue, another single mother, with no family as back up, is still close friends with her ex, who has re-married and is happy. Sue wants her girls to stay single; Becky wants her kids to marry.

Chapter 12: Vivian's live-in lover and her children don't get along and while Vivian was at work a lot of the time so the live-in boyfriend (Emmanuel) had an affair. Again, as in many instances in this book, work is having a negative impact on personal lives.

Chapter 13: This chapter is about overtime and there are numerous interviews with workers as to why they work so many hours overtime; the money, of course is the main reason, but families and relationships inevitably suffer.

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Chapter 14: A third of those that the author interviewed admitted to being "workaholics." Private life is "devalued" and its "boundaries shrink" when people work so many hours (198).

Chapter 15: More men than women are content to have their young children home alone while they are at work. Substitutes for typical family services are available for families (pre-cooked dinners, etc.) because so many parents both work long hours.

Chapter 16: This chapter is focused on ways to make more time for families. If workers truly want more time with their families -- notwithstanding the long hours they need to put in at work to pay bills -- they must "directly challenge the organization, and organizers, of the American workplace" (245). The ones to make that challenge will be women, the author explains on page 258.

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