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

• Autore: Chen Victor Tan <1976->
• 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
• ISBN: 0-520-28301-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788104503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II