Labor's love lost : the rise and fall of the working-class family in America / Andrew J. Cherlin.
Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbe...
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Russell Sage Foundation,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The emergence of the working-class family, 1800 to 1899
- Good times and hard times : 1900 to 1945
- The peak years, 1945 to 1975
- The fall: 1975 to 2010
- The would-be working-class today
- What is to be done?