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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Edition. The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs but the prospects for most working Americans improved little Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment In this book Margaret K Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households of workingclass Americans to consider how they are coping with largescale structural changes in the economy specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies gender dynamics and political attitudesDrawing on both randomly distributed telephone surveys and indepth interviews Nelson and Smith explore the differences in the survival strategies of two groups of workingclass households in a rural county those in which at least one family member has been able to hold on to good work a yearround fulltime job that carries benefits and those in which nobody has been able to secure or retain steady employment They find that households with good jobs are able to effectively use all of their labor powerthey rely on two workers they engage in ontheside businesses and they barter with friends and neighbors In contrast those living in families without at least one good job find themselves considerably less capable of deploying a complex multifaceted survival strategy The authors further demonstrate that this difference between the two sets of households is accompanied by differences in the gender division of labor within the household and the manner in which individuals make sense of and respond to their employment. Seller Inventory # DADAX0520215753
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Book Description Condition: New. This volume takes a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics and poli. Seller Inventory # 594721183