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



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Autore: Chen Victor Tan <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cut loose : jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy / / Victor Tan Chen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
Disciplina: 331.13/70973
Soggetto topico: Unemployed - United States
Unemployed - Canada
Automobile industry workers - United States
Automobile industry workers - Canada
Soggetto geografico: United States Economic conditions
Canada Economic conditions
United States Social conditions
Canada Social conditions
Soggetto non controllato: 21st century american economy
american auto industry
american economy
american history
auto industry
autoworkers
business
call to action
car industry
class inequality
depressed economy
economic concerns
economy
ethics
factory work
great recession
historical
income inequality
industrial economic relations
job killing technology
labor policy
labor
laid off workers
middle class
morality
political
politics
sociology
technology
unemployment
work overseas
worker
working class
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Cut loose  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-28301-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788104503321
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