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Author Cherlin, Andrew J., 1948-

Title Labor's love lost : the rise and fall of the working-class family in America / Andrew J. Cherlin.

Publication Info. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.8508623 C423l 2014    ---  Available
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Description 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.
Working class families. (OCoLC)fst01180553
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780871540300 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0871540304 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781610448444 (ebook)

 
    
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