The New Family and the New Property

The New Family and the New Property by Mary Ann Glendon This is a very timely book. Although its author has not intended to address the contemporary swing toward "re-structuring" embodied in "the New Fed- eralism," her scholarly examination nevertheless obliges readers to weigh care-fully many of the social and political realities the current administration is determined to change. Just at the moment when the American population's unprecedented dependence on both employment in the public sector and gov- ernment transfer payments is being severely curtailed, Mary Ann Glendon presents an excellent appraisal of their evolving legal underpinnings in "the new property." She skillfully connects their recent emergence to major historical changes in the relationship of the individual to family and to workplace. In addition, she does a great deal more than that, for this is also a very thoughtful book. Glendon offers us an analysis which, in her words, seeks "to bring comparative law to the threshold of legal sociology." Paperback. Used-good condition. All pages intact. Smoke free. Sociological Society Social Law