Families that work: policies for reconciling parenthood and employment

This book. It engages with theoretical debatesabout materialist versus post-materialist poli-tics, old versus new social movements, and thelike, but does not get bogged down in them,instead staying firmly rooted in the empiricalmaterials at hand. It also very productivelyapplies the resource mobilization theory of so-cial movements to develop an original and po-tentially powerful analysis of coalitions.Another strength of the book is that it movesbeyond static analyses of workers’ and environ-mentalists’ interests, to look at the ways in whichconceptions of interest vary over time and acrossindustries. Both cooperation and conflict arestructurally possible, Obach argues, so the im-portant issue is the way in…