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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464093403321

Autore

Chen Victor Tan <1976->

Titolo

Cut loose : jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy / / Victor Tan Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-28301-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Disciplina

331.13/70973

Soggetti

Unemployed - United States

Unemployed - Canada

Automobile industry workers - United States

Automobile industry workers - Canada

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions

Canada Economic conditions

United States Social conditions

Canada Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. They Had It Coming -- CHAPTER 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup -- CHAPTER 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net -- CHAPTER 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed -- CHAPTER 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment -- CHAPTER 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream -- CHAPTER 7. There Go I -- Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of



a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of greater inequality and risk, one that favors the well-educated-or well-connected. Their declining fortunes in recent decades tell us something about what the white-collar workforce should expect to see in the years ahead, as job-killing technologies and the shipping of work overseas take away even more good jobs.  Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today's unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis. It is also a call to action-a blueprint for a new kind of politics, one that offers a measure of grace in a society of ruthless advancement.