Cut Loose : Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy
Victor Tan. Chen
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (339 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Cut Loose; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. They Had It Coming; 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup; 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net; 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed; 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment; 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream; 7. There Go I; Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details; Notes; Index. - Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of greater inequality and risk, one that favors the well-educated-or well-connected.Their declining fortunes in recent de
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| ISBN | 0883447746
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