Consuming Work : Youth Labor in America /

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Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students' consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working. In Consuming Work, Yasemin Besen-Cassino reveals that many American high school and college students work for social reasons, not monetary gain. Mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Besen-Cassino, Yasemin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Youth > Social conditions.
Youth > Employment.
Part-time employment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Jeunesse > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Youth > United States > Social conditions.
Part-time employment > United States.
Youth > Employment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Consuming work : introduction to youth work in America
  • Would you like a job application with your coffee?
  • Fun or exploitation?
  • Pay or play? : US youth labor force and other industrialized countries with a comparative perspective
  • "They need me here" : work as an alternative to school?
  • "White, young, middle-class" : aesthetic labor, race and class in the youth labor force
  • Origins of the gender wage gap : gender differences in the labor force
  • Conclusion: the economic recession and the future of youth labor
  • Appendix: tables and figures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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