Krista M Brumley
Biographic Data
| ID | 237945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista M Brumley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brumley |
| SIGNATURE | BRUMLEY K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2486-1441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Duration of overnight work travel and psychological distress: The moderating role of perceived partner work-to-family conflict
While overnight work-travel (OWT) declined significantly in 2020, it has steadily rebounded and remains a common job demand. Yet despite its continued relevance, few studies have examined how features of OWT – such as its duration – are associated with travelers’ well-being. Using data from a cross-sectional sample of employed heterosexual U.S. respondents (N = 183) in dual-earning, married or cohabiting relationships who travel for work, this st…
Social Change in the Turbulent Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Work-Related Demands on Work-to-Family Conflict, Mastery, and Psychological Distress
This study examines whether (and why) the accumulation of perceived work-related demands associated with social change in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic relates to psychological distress among a sample of employed adults in dual-earning relationships living in the United States. Using data from a cross-sectional online survey ( N = 418) administered during the early months of the pandemic, multivariate results indicate a positive associatio…
A Time to Unwind or Despair? Decoding the Impact of Commuting Duration on Psychological Distress
Commuting has traditionally been viewed as a demand that negatively impacts psychological health. Yet, theoretical scholarship suggests there may be an upside to commuting for mental health. This study examines (a) whether the association between one-way commuting duration and psychological distress is non-linear and (b) whether this association is modified by two within-domain demands: household labor relative to one’s partner (home demand) and …
Behind the scenes: Gendered Household Labor Schemas of Managers and Helpers
She cooks; I'll clean the dishes'. 'My wife picks up the kids. I drop them off'. If we consider the physical tasks only, we have an incomplete picture of the division of household labor. The thinking, planning, and managing of family work remains unaccounted for and hidden. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 heterosexual parents in the US, we analyze both the physical and mental household labor. We propose gendered household labor schemas to …
Remote Work and Work-Family Conflict during Covid-19: Individual and Crossover Effects among Dual-Earning Couples
The study investigates the association of the extent of remote work with men’s and women’s behavioral work-family conflict and their partners’ behavioral work-family conflict. The authors examine if these effects vary by parental status. Analyses of survey data from 343 U.S. dual-earning couples collected during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic show that among couples with children, their extent of remote work is positively associated with b…
Covid-19 Onset, Parental Status, and Psychological Distress among Full-time Employed Heterosexual Adults in Dual-earning Relationships: The Explanatory Role of Work-family Conflict and Guilt
We propose that the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions to daily life that followed had greater negative impact on the mental health, as measured by psychological distress, of employed parents than nonparents, because of an associated increase in both directions of work-family conflict and work-family guilt among this group of the population. To test this argument, we examined pooled data from two cross-sectional online surveys administered to…
Rules of Engagement: Flexplace and Ideal Workers
Employees increasingly claim they do not have enough time to manage the demands of both work and family/life. Workplace flexibility policies have been offered as a key solution to managing these conflicting demands. Yet, employers remain resistant to develop, implement, and endorse these policies. We suggest one avenue to further our understanding is a more holistic look at the connection between availability and use of flexibility, and the workp…
The Paradox of Time: Work, Family, Conflict, and the Social Construction of Time
Today’s employees work longer hours and face constraints from nonstandard, rotating, or unpredictable schedules. Even when they are home, employees are often tethered to their jobs by technology and expected to be available. Higher demands on an employee’s time can lead to burnout and greater job-related stress, impacting work-family conflict. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze how women in dual-income heterosexual partnerships make sense…
Overnight work-travel, work-to-family conflict, and psychological distress
Overnight work-related travel (OWT) is a job demand that is increasing among employees in the United States. Research suggests the impact of OWT is positively associated with work-to-family conflict (WFC) and mental health problems, such as psychological distress. By using data from a sample of 123 employed adults that travel overnight for work and live in dual-earner households in the United States, we examined the associations between the durat…
Carrying the Burden of a Culture: Bargaining With Patriarchy and the Gendered Reputation of Arab American Women
This article analyzes how Arab American women understand cultural expectations that govern their lives and bodies, as they grapple with tension between U.S. and Arab cultural narratives. Using data from 20 in-depth interviews with second-generation Arab American women, this study shows how they draw on traditional familial narratives of honor and reputation, (re)interpret acculturation into the United States, and bargain with patriarchy to (re)sh…
It's More Appropriate for Men: Management and Worker Perceptions of the Gendered Ideal Worker
Drawing on qualitative interviews at a Mexican-owned multinational manufacturing corporation, this article analyzes how perceptions of the ideal worker shift during workplace transformation to impact women and men differently. Prior to transformation, women and men perform distinct forms of labor on the shop floor. When the company moves from labor-intensive to technology-driven production, the ideal factory worker changes. Management (re)assesse…
The Gendered Ideal Worker Narrative: Professional Women’s and Men’s Work Experiences in the New Economy at a Mexican Company
Workplaces have transformed over the past decades in response to global forces. This case study of a Mexican-owned multinational corporation compares employee perceptions of a new work culture required to confront these demands. Employees are expected to work long hours and to produce results, obtain the right skills and knowledge, and exhibit proactivity. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, this article theorizes what the expectations mean fo…
It Was Like a Revolution: Women’s Perceptions of Work–Family Practices at a Mexican Multinational Corporation
In 1997, a multinational company in northern Mexico replaced a work policy that required women to quit on marriage or pregnancy. Analysis of extensive data from a qualitative case study shows how the women perceive the policy change as shaping work-family choices. The women interpret the change as significant because it recognizes women's 'right to work' and grants them access to family-friendly workplace policies. But their interpretations of ho…
Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at aMexican Company
Mexican workplaces have changed significantly in response to the global marketplace by restructuring, downsizing, and implementing new production and administrative processes. This case study analyzes organizational commitment at aMexican-owned multinational corporation within the context of workplace transformation. Based on in-depth interviews with 83 women and men,Iidentify two sources of commitment-family-friendly and career-friendly employme…
You care for your work; I'll care for your family: Perceptions of paternalistic managerial actions and employee commitment in Mexico
This study focuses on paternalism as a managerial strategy to foster employee commitment. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews during extended fieldwork at a Mexican multinational company, I examine employee perceptions of managerial actions within the context of workplace transformation. Employees perceived management as caring toward them and their families and characterized the workplace as a considerate and respectful environment. Employees…
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
Now, We Have the Same Rights as Men to Keep Our Jobs’: Gendered Perceptions of Opportunity and Obstacles in a Mexican Workplace
Drawing on extensive qualitative data at a Mexican‐owned multinational corporation, this case study investigates professional employees’ perceptions of changes to a prohibitive work policy requiring women to quit working upon marriage and having children. Employees believed the policy change meant working women were valued employees, but how this translated into opportunity highlighted distinct views of the types of positions professional women c…
From Responsible Debtors to Citizens: Collective Identity in the Debtors’ Movement in Monterrey, Mexico
Collective identity is a key feature of social movements that gives agency to movement actors, but it is shaped and constrained by particular sociopolitical contexts. Using ethnographic data from extended field research, I analyze how the local sociopolitical context shapes the collective identity over the life course of the debtors' movement that emerged in Mexico during the 1990s economic crisis. I demonstrate how El Barzón negotiates the local…
Understanding Mexican NGOs: Goals, Strategies, and the Local Context
Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public–Housing Development
Recent critiques of conventional poverty research have highlighted the need to move beyond the conceptual limitations of “neighborhood effects” models and the use of the tropes of “adaptation” or “resistance” to explain the behaviors and actions of the urban poor. We use ethnographic field observations and interviews with public–housing residents to address these limitations in the poverty literature, assess competing explanations of poor people’…
Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public–Housing Development
Recent critiques of conventional poverty research have highlighted the need to move beyond the conceptual limitations of “neighborhood effects” models and the use of the tropes of “adaptation” or “resistance” to explain the behaviors and actions of the urban poor. We use ethnographic field observations and interviews with public–housing residents to address these limitations in the poverty literature, assess competing explanations of poor people’…
The Gendered Ideal Worker Narrative: Professional Women’s and Men’s Work Experiences in the New Economy at a Mexican Company
Workplaces have transformed over the past decades in response to global forces. This case study of a Mexican-owned multinational corporation compares employee perceptions of a new work culture required to confront these demands. Employees are expected to work long hours and to produce results, obtain the right skills and knowledge, and exhibit proactivity. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, this article theorizes what the expectations mean fo…
Understanding Mexican NGOs: Goals, Strategies, and the Local Context
Now, We Have the Same Rights as Men to Keep Our Jobs’: Gendered Perceptions of Opportunity and Obstacles in a Mexican Workplace
Drawing on extensive qualitative data at a Mexican‐owned multinational corporation, this case study investigates professional employees’ perceptions of changes to a prohibitive work policy requiring women to quit working upon marriage and having children. Employees believed the policy change meant working women were valued employees, but how this translated into opportunity highlighted distinct views of the types of positions professional women c…
Carrying the Burden of a Culture: Bargaining With Patriarchy and the Gendered Reputation of Arab American Women
This article analyzes how Arab American women understand cultural expectations that govern their lives and bodies, as they grapple with tension between U.S. and Arab cultural narratives. Using data from 20 in-depth interviews with second-generation Arab American women, this study shows how they draw on traditional familial narratives of honor and reputation, (re)interpret acculturation into the United States, and bargain with patriarchy to (re)sh…
Behind the scenes: Gendered Household Labor Schemas of Managers and Helpers
She cooks; I'll clean the dishes'. 'My wife picks up the kids. I drop them off'. If we consider the physical tasks only, we have an incomplete picture of the division of household labor. The thinking, planning, and managing of family work remains unaccounted for and hidden. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 heterosexual parents in the US, we analyze both the physical and mental household labor. We propose gendered household labor schemas to …
From Responsible Debtors to Citizens: Collective Identity in the Debtors’ Movement in Monterrey, Mexico
Collective identity is a key feature of social movements that gives agency to movement actors, but it is shaped and constrained by particular sociopolitical contexts. Using ethnographic data from extended field research, I analyze how the local sociopolitical context shapes the collective identity over the life course of the debtors' movement that emerged in Mexico during the 1990s economic crisis. I demonstrate how El Barzón negotiates the local…
You care for your work; I'll care for your family: Perceptions of paternalistic managerial actions and employee commitment in Mexico
This study focuses on paternalism as a managerial strategy to foster employee commitment. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews during extended fieldwork at a Mexican multinational company, I examine employee perceptions of managerial actions within the context of workplace transformation. Employees perceived management as caring toward them and their families and characterized the workplace as a considerate and respectful environment. Employees…
Rules of Engagement: Flexplace and Ideal Workers
Employees increasingly claim they do not have enough time to manage the demands of both work and family/life. Workplace flexibility policies have been offered as a key solution to managing these conflicting demands. Yet, employers remain resistant to develop, implement, and endorse these policies. We suggest one avenue to further our understanding is a more holistic look at the connection between availability and use of flexibility, and the workp…
The Paradox of Time: Work, Family, Conflict, and the Social Construction of Time
Today’s employees work longer hours and face constraints from nonstandard, rotating, or unpredictable schedules. Even when they are home, employees are often tethered to their jobs by technology and expected to be available. Higher demands on an employee’s time can lead to burnout and greater job-related stress, impacting work-family conflict. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze how women in dual-income heterosexual partnerships make sense…
Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at aMexican Company
Mexican workplaces have changed significantly in response to the global marketplace by restructuring, downsizing, and implementing new production and administrative processes. This case study analyzes organizational commitment at aMexican-owned multinational corporation within the context of workplace transformation. Based on in-depth interviews with 83 women and men,Iidentify two sources of commitment-family-friendly and career-friendly employme…
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
Overnight work-travel, work-to-family conflict, and psychological distress
Overnight work-related travel (OWT) is a job demand that is increasing among employees in the United States. Research suggests the impact of OWT is positively associated with work-to-family conflict (WFC) and mental health problems, such as psychological distress. By using data from a sample of 123 employed adults that travel overnight for work and live in dual-earner households in the United States, we examined the associations between the durat…
It's More Appropriate for Men: Management and Worker Perceptions of the Gendered Ideal Worker
Drawing on qualitative interviews at a Mexican-owned multinational manufacturing corporation, this article analyzes how perceptions of the ideal worker shift during workplace transformation to impact women and men differently. Prior to transformation, women and men perform distinct forms of labor on the shop floor. When the company moves from labor-intensive to technology-driven production, the ideal factory worker changes. Management (re)assesse…
It Was Like a Revolution: Women’s Perceptions of Work–Family Practices at a Mexican Multinational Corporation
In 1997, a multinational company in northern Mexico replaced a work policy that required women to quit on marriage or pregnancy. Analysis of extensive data from a qualitative case study shows how the women perceive the policy change as shaping work-family choices. The women interpret the change as significant because it recognizes women's 'right to work' and grants them access to family-friendly workplace policies. But their interpretations of ho…
Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public–Housing Development
Recent critiques of conventional poverty research have highlighted the need to move beyond the conceptual limitations of “neighborhood effects” models and the use of the tropes of “adaptation” or “resistance” to explain the behaviors and actions of the urban poor. We use ethnographic field observations and interviews with public–housing residents to address these limitations in the poverty literature, assess competing explanations of poor people’…
Understanding Mexican NGOs: Goals, Strategies, and the Local Context
Now, We Have the Same Rights as Men to Keep Our Jobs’: Gendered Perceptions of Opportunity and Obstacles in a Mexican Workplace
Drawing on extensive qualitative data at a Mexican‐owned multinational corporation, this case study investigates professional employees’ perceptions of changes to a prohibitive work policy requiring women to quit working upon marriage and having children. Employees believed the policy change meant working women were valued employees, but how this translated into opportunity highlighted distinct views of the types of positions professional women c…
From Responsible Debtors to Citizens: Collective Identity in the Debtors’ Movement in Monterrey, Mexico
Collective identity is a key feature of social movements that gives agency to movement actors, but it is shaped and constrained by particular sociopolitical contexts. Using ethnographic data from extended field research, I analyze how the local sociopolitical context shapes the collective identity over the life course of the debtors' movement that emerged in Mexico during the 1990s economic crisis. I demonstrate how El Barzón negotiates the local…
The Gendered Ideal Worker Narrative: Professional Women’s and Men’s Work Experiences in the New Economy at a Mexican Company
Workplaces have transformed over the past decades in response to global forces. This case study of a Mexican-owned multinational corporation compares employee perceptions of a new work culture required to confront these demands. Employees are expected to work long hours and to produce results, obtain the right skills and knowledge, and exhibit proactivity. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, this article theorizes what the expectations mean fo…
It Was Like a Revolution: Women’s Perceptions of Work–Family Practices at a Mexican Multinational Corporation
In 1997, a multinational company in northern Mexico replaced a work policy that required women to quit on marriage or pregnancy. Analysis of extensive data from a qualitative case study shows how the women perceive the policy change as shaping work-family choices. The women interpret the change as significant because it recognizes women's 'right to work' and grants them access to family-friendly workplace policies. But their interpretations of ho…
Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at aMexican Company
Mexican workplaces have changed significantly in response to the global marketplace by restructuring, downsizing, and implementing new production and administrative processes. This case study analyzes organizational commitment at aMexican-owned multinational corporation within the context of workplace transformation. Based on in-depth interviews with 83 women and men,Iidentify two sources of commitment-family-friendly and career-friendly employme…
You care for your work; I'll care for your family: Perceptions of paternalistic managerial actions and employee commitment in Mexico
This study focuses on paternalism as a managerial strategy to foster employee commitment. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews during extended fieldwork at a Mexican multinational company, I examine employee perceptions of managerial actions within the context of workplace transformation. Employees perceived management as caring toward them and their families and characterized the workplace as a considerate and respectful environment. Employees…
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
It's More Appropriate for Men: Management and Worker Perceptions of the Gendered Ideal Worker
Drawing on qualitative interviews at a Mexican-owned multinational manufacturing corporation, this article analyzes how perceptions of the ideal worker shift during workplace transformation to impact women and men differently. Prior to transformation, women and men perform distinct forms of labor on the shop floor. When the company moves from labor-intensive to technology-driven production, the ideal factory worker changes. Management (re)assesse…
Carrying the Burden of a Culture: Bargaining With Patriarchy and the Gendered Reputation of Arab American Women
This article analyzes how Arab American women understand cultural expectations that govern their lives and bodies, as they grapple with tension between U.S. and Arab cultural narratives. Using data from 20 in-depth interviews with second-generation Arab American women, this study shows how they draw on traditional familial narratives of honor and reputation, (re)interpret acculturation into the United States, and bargain with patriarchy to (re)sh…
Overnight work-travel, work-to-family conflict, and psychological distress
Overnight work-related travel (OWT) is a job demand that is increasing among employees in the United States. Research suggests the impact of OWT is positively associated with work-to-family conflict (WFC) and mental health problems, such as psychological distress. By using data from a sample of 123 employed adults that travel overnight for work and live in dual-earner households in the United States, we examined the associations between the durat…
The Paradox of Time: Work, Family, Conflict, and the Social Construction of Time
Today’s employees work longer hours and face constraints from nonstandard, rotating, or unpredictable schedules. Even when they are home, employees are often tethered to their jobs by technology and expected to be available. Higher demands on an employee’s time can lead to burnout and greater job-related stress, impacting work-family conflict. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze how women in dual-income heterosexual partnerships make sense…
Covid-19 Onset, Parental Status, and Psychological Distress among Full-time Employed Heterosexual Adults in Dual-earning Relationships: The Explanatory Role of Work-family Conflict and Guilt
We propose that the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions to daily life that followed had greater negative impact on the mental health, as measured by psychological distress, of employed parents than nonparents, because of an associated increase in both directions of work-family conflict and work-family guilt among this group of the population. To test this argument, we examined pooled data from two cross-sectional online surveys administered to…
Rules of Engagement: Flexplace and Ideal Workers
Employees increasingly claim they do not have enough time to manage the demands of both work and family/life. Workplace flexibility policies have been offered as a key solution to managing these conflicting demands. Yet, employers remain resistant to develop, implement, and endorse these policies. We suggest one avenue to further our understanding is a more holistic look at the connection between availability and use of flexibility, and the workp…
Remote Work and Work-Family Conflict during Covid-19: Individual and Crossover Effects among Dual-Earning Couples
The study investigates the association of the extent of remote work with men’s and women’s behavioral work-family conflict and their partners’ behavioral work-family conflict. The authors examine if these effects vary by parental status. Analyses of survey data from 343 U.S. dual-earning couples collected during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic show that among couples with children, their extent of remote work is positively associated with b…
Social Change in the Turbulent Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Work-Related Demands on Work-to-Family Conflict, Mastery, and Psychological Distress
This study examines whether (and why) the accumulation of perceived work-related demands associated with social change in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic relates to psychological distress among a sample of employed adults in dual-earning relationships living in the United States. Using data from a cross-sectional online survey ( N = 418) administered during the early months of the pandemic, multivariate results indicate a positive associatio…
A Time to Unwind or Despair? Decoding the Impact of Commuting Duration on Psychological Distress
Commuting has traditionally been viewed as a demand that negatively impacts psychological health. Yet, theoretical scholarship suggests there may be an upside to commuting for mental health. This study examines (a) whether the association between one-way commuting duration and psychological distress is non-linear and (b) whether this association is modified by two within-domain demands: household labor relative to one’s partner (home demand) and …
Behind the scenes: Gendered Household Labor Schemas of Managers and Helpers
She cooks; I'll clean the dishes'. 'My wife picks up the kids. I drop them off'. If we consider the physical tasks only, we have an incomplete picture of the division of household labor. The thinking, planning, and managing of family work remains unaccounted for and hidden. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 heterosexual parents in the US, we analyze both the physical and mental household labor. We propose gendered household labor schemas to …
Duration of overnight work travel and psychological distress: The moderating role of perceived partner work-to-family conflict
While overnight work-travel (OWT) declined significantly in 2020, it has steadily rebounded and remains a common job demand. Yet despite its continued relevance, few studies have examined how features of OWT – such as its duration – are associated with travelers’ well-being. Using data from a cross-sectional sample of employed heterosexual U.S. respondents (N = 183) in dual-earning, married or cohabiting relationships who travel for work, this st…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Multinational corporation (6 works)