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Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America
Margaret K. Nelson
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Paperback. This volume takes a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics and political attitudes. Num Pages: 289 pages, 10 charts, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHBL; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63. Fine copy
The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. In this book, Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics, and political attitudes. Drawing on ... Read more
The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. In this book, Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics, and political attitudes. Drawing on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
289
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520215757
SKU
KST0009650
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99-1
About Margaret K. Nelson
Margaret K. Nelson is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. She is the author of Negotiated Care: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers (1991). Joan Smith is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World Economy (1992). ... Read more
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