| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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? |
| Summary |
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 numbers of young adults now hold precarious, low-paid jobs with few fringe benefits. Facing such insecure economic prospects, less-educated young adults are increasingly forgoing marriage and are having children within unstable cohabiting relationships. This has created a large marriage gap between them and their more affluent, college-educated peers. In Labor's Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Working class families -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Working class families
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019718232 |
| ISBN |
9781610448444 |
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1610448448 |
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