Working Hard and Making Do - Surviving in Small Town America

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List of contents

Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

I. Constructing a New Economy 
2. Families Struggling in the New Economy
3. Earning a Living Means More than a Job 
4. Making It at Home 
5. Gendering Strategies 
6. Dividing the Labor 
7. Work Matters 
Conclusion 

Appendix: Methodology 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

About the author

Margaret K. Nelson is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. She is the author of Negotiated Care: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers (1991). Joan Smith is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World Economy (1992).

Summary

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 political attitudes.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret K. Nelson, Margaret K. Smith Nelson, Nelson/Smith, Joan Smith
• Assisted by: Margaret K. Nelson (Editor), Joan Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.1999
• EAN: 9780520215757
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21575-7
• No. of pages: 289
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrial arbitration and negotiation