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Coming up Short : Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

ISBN: 9780199931460 | 0199931461
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/7/2013

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SummaryAuthor Biography
What does it mean to grow up today? Traditional markers of adulthood have become delayed, disorderly, reversible, or even foregone in the latter half of the twentieth century. Through in-depth interviews, this book uncovers the grim reality behind the statistics, exploring working-class men and women's struggles to grow up in an age of insecure jobs, unstable families, and deepening inequality. For these young men and women, adulthood is not simply being delayed; it is being dramatically re-imagined along lines of work, family, commitment, trus... MORE

Jennifer M. Silva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.


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