Böcker av Karen V. Hansen

In 1970s California, when many school communities resisted progress, visionary teachers and dynamic students at Sunnyvale High School created a vibrant, multiracial school community where students took on meaningful leadership roles, found common ground, and blazed multiple paths to successful adulthood.

How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. The book concludes with a series of policy suggestions intended to improve the environment in which working families raise children.

This anecdotal narrative explores the community lives of New England's working women and men, both black and white, in the half century before the Civil War. The book's collection of original writings reinforces Hansen's arguments and provides an intimate glimpse into life in the area.