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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cherlin, Andrew J., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?