Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families - Softcover

Iversen, Roberta Rehner; Armstrong, Annie Laurie

 
9781592133567: Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1592133568 ISBN 13: 9781592133567
Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S., 2006

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In this gripping ethnographic account, Roberta Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong examine the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income families in 21st century America. The 'voices' of twenty-five families in Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Seattle and of hundreds of people who are linked to the families' lives, show that the historic myths about opportunity, merit, and 'bootstraps' are outdated and, in some cases, downright dangerous for many urban workers and their families. Iversen and Armstrong show that the social institutions of family, education, labour market and policy all intersect to influence mobility. Jobs Aren't Enough proposes a new mobility paradigm grounded in cooperation, collaboration, mutuality and revitalization of the 'public will' to maximize both household and profit.

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Verlag
Temple University Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1592133568
ISBN 13 
9781592133567
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Anzahl der Seiten
296
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