Getting by on the minimum : the lives of working-class women / / Jennifer Johnson

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/9623/0973
• Soggetto topico: Working class women - United States; Poor women - United States; Social classes - United States
• Note generali: Published in 2002 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. The meaning of work and class -- 3. Life on the job -- 4. Can't get no satisfaction -- 5. What work means -- 6. Work (f)or family -- 7. The work of caring -- 8. Growing up poor in postwar America -- 9. Dropping out -- 10. What will I be? -- 11. Getting by on the minimum.
• Sommario/riassunto: Profiles the real-life stories if more than sixty women who have no college education, are married with kids, and ears an average of USD16,000 per year, giving us an important window into a large, poorly understood segment of US society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Getting by on the minimum
• ISBN: 0-415-92801-X; 0-203-95094-1; 1-135-29895-5; 1-135-29888-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790768903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II