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xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The emergence of the working-class family, 1800-1899 -- Good times and hard times : 1900-1945 -- The peak years, 1945-1975 -- The fall of the working-class family: 1975-2010 -- The would-be working class today / with the collaboration of Timothy Nelson -- What is to be done? |
Summary |
Labor's Love Lost offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America, demonstrating how momentous social and economic transformations have contributed to the collapse of this one-stable social class and what this seismic cultural shift means for the nation's future. Drawing from more than a hundred years of census data, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin shows that the primary problem of the fall of the working-class family from its mid-twentieth century peak is not that the male-breadwinner family has declined, but that nothing stable has replaced it. The breakdown of a stable family structure has serious consequences for low-income families, particularly for children, many of whom underperform in school, thereby reducing their future employment prospects and perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of economic disadvantage. Cherlin's investigation of today's "would-be working class" shines a much-needed spotlight on the struggling middle of our society. -- from back cover. |
Subject |
Working class families -- United States.
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Working class families. (OCoLC)fst01180553
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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ISBN |
9780871540300 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0871540304 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781610448444 (ebook) |
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