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Ann Bookman
Ann
Bookman,
Ph.D.
Biography:
Ann Bookman served as Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded center, from 2001-2008. She is a social anthropologist who has authored a number of publications in the areas of women’s work, work and family issues, unionization, and child and family policy. Her recent research projects and publications focus on work redesign in the health care workplace, family caregiving, and the aging population. Her book, Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy (Routledge, 2004), extends the discourse on work-family integration to include issues of community involvement and civil society. Bookman has held a variety of teaching, research, and administrative positions and has also worked in government, as a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton administration, as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave. She is co-editor of Women and the Politics of Empowerment (Temple University Press, 1988). Expertise: Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Elder Care
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