This case describes the third approach Donna Klein took to managing the troublesome question of how to help Marriott employees balance work and family life. The case builds on the A and B cases and reports events through 1995. See A case (UVA-OB-0425) and B case (UVA-OB-0435)

Donna Klein, director of the newly founded Department of Work and Family Life at Marriott Corporation, is charged with designing a set of programs that meets the work and family needs expressed by Marriott's diverse work force of 200,000. The A case provides background information regarding...

"Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of...

Among the miners of Wyoming's Powder River Basin--the largest coal-producing region in the U.S.--anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston reveals how the mining industry, though heavily masculinized, generates new configurations of the "working family"--a kind of kinship based on the shared burdens...

The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...