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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to grow up today as a young, working-class adult? In Coming Up Short, Jennifer Silva illuminates the dramatic transition to adulthood for working-class men and women. Based on one hundred interviews with working-class people in two towns -- Lowell, Massachusetts, and Richmond, Virginia -- Silva sheds light on their experience of heightened economic insecurity, deepening inequality, and uncertainty about marriage and family. Compelling...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer M. Silva tellas a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the erosion of the American Dream is lived and felt.
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