Labor's love lost : the rise and fall of the working-class family in America

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

Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbe...

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Main Author: Cherlin, Andrew J., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
Subjects:
Working class families > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Working class families
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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?

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