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Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum analyze in detail the effect of the state's landmark paid family leave on employers and workers. They also explore the implications of California's decade-long experience with paid family leave for the nation, which is engaged in ongoing debate about work-family policies.Milkman and Appelbaum recount the process by which California workers and their allies built a coalition to win passage of paid family leave in the state legislature, and lay out the lessons for advocates in other states and localities, as well as the nation. Because paid leave enjoys extensive popular support across the political spectrum, campaigns for such laws have an excellent chance of success if some basic preconditions are met. Do paid family leave and similar programs impose significant costs and burdens on employers? Business interests argue that they do and routinely oppose any and all legislative initiatives in this area. Once the program took effect in California, this book shows, large majorities of employers themselves reported that its impact on productivity, profitability, and performance was negligible or positive.Unfinished Business demonstrates that the California program is well managed and easy to access, but that awareness of its existence remains limited. Moreover, those who need the program's benefits most urgently-low-wage workers, young workers, immigrants, and disadvantaged minorities-are least likely to know about it. As a result, the long-standing pattern of inequality in access to paid leave has remained largely intact.

Sujets

Sociologie, société et politique

USA

Local history

US West

Industrial relations

History of the Americas

États-Unis

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801469503
Langue	English

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UnﬁnishedBusiness

PaidFamilyLeaveinCaliforniaandtheFuture of U.S. Work-Family Policy

RuthMilkmanandEileenAppelbaum

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First published 2013 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Milkman, Ruth, 1954– author. Unﬁnished business : paid family leave in California and the future of U.S. work-family policy / Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5238-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8014-7895-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Parental leave—California. 2. Parental leave—United States. 3. Work and family—Government policy—California. 4. Work and family—Government policy—United States. I. Appelbaum, Eileen, 1940– author. II. Title. HD6065.5.U6M55 2013 331.25'763—dc23 2013015494

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Inmemoryofourmothers,Beatrice Milkman and Sarah Schneider

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Contents

1.Introduction:TheCaseforPaidFamilyLeave

2.ThePoliticsofFamilyLeave,PastandPresent

3.ChallengesofLegislativeImplementation

4.PaidFamilyLeaveandCaliforniaBusiness

5.TheReproductionofInequality

6.ConclusionsandFutureChallenges

MethodologicalAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

1 16 40 55 85 107

119 131 137 145

Acknowledgments

Wehavebeenatworkonthisprojectformorethanadecade.Itbeganimmediately after the California legislature passed the bill creating the nation’sﬁrst paid family leave (PFL) program in the fall of 2002, when we spotted a window of opportunity—after the legislation was passed but before the program would begin operating, in mid-2004—to collect baseline data on how workers and employers were managing the kinds of family events the new PFL program would soon cover. Funding for that crucial initial stage of our research came primarily from the National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD). We are deeply grateful to Lynne Casper, then an NICHD program ofﬁcer, who under-stood the uniqueness of that historical moment and guided us through the NICHD funding process, making the initial surveys of employers and workers possible on very short notice. At the Alfred P. Sloan Foun-dation, Kathleen Christensen supplemented the NICHD funding with a program ofﬁcer’s grant that supported ourﬁrst round ofﬁeldwork. The UCLA Institute for Labor and Employment also helped to fund this early stage of our work. We are also grateful to the Schumann Fund for New Jersey, and its program ofﬁcer Barbara Riesman, for funding