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Labor's love lost : the rise and fall of the working-class family in America / Andrew J. Cherlin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherlin, Andrew J., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class families--United States--History.
- Working class families.
- Working class--United States--History.
- Working class.
- History.
- United States.
- Families--United States--History.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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 once-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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The emergence of the working-class family, 1800 to 1899
- Good times and hard times : 1900 to 1945
- The peak years, 1945 to 1975
- The fall: 1975 to 2010
- The would-be working-class today
- What is to be done?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1610448448
- 9781610448444
- Publisher Number:
- 99976954618
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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