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Coming Up Short - Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty (Paperback)
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Coming Up Short - Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty (Paperback)
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"Impeccably researched and skillfully articulated, Silva's work is
a timely primer on the current state of blue-collar Millennials."
-Publishers Weekly "[A] brief yet devastating book that blends
academic analysis and oral history to put a new face on
well-documented trends that are more usually described in the
abstract." -Boston Globe "Silva has made a major contribution to
understanding where young adults are coming from, what influences
them, and what they consider to be common sense." -The American
Conservative "Fascinating" -Feministing.com "[A]n enjoyable read
and raises important issues that we generally overlook."
-Washington Independent Review of Books "Coming Up Short is a
brief, but powerful, update of the status, difficulties, behaviors
and distresses that characterize the lives of young working class
adults.... highly recommended for sociologists and social welfare
students and academics alike. It informs in telling detail the
difficult circumstances and self-perceptions of a significant
portion of the American population. It is also a window into how
the 'helping professions' have influenced the thinking of young
adults and suggests that those professions need to help their
clients see their troubles in broader terms than they apparently
currently do." -Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare What does
it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does
the economic and social instability left in the wake of
neoliberalism shape their identities, their understandings of the
American Dream, and their futures? Coming Up Short illuminates the
transition to adulthood for working-class men and women. Moving
away from easy labels such as the "Peter Pan generation," Jennifer
Silva reveals the far bleaker picture of how the erosion of
traditional markers of adulthood-marriage, a steady job, a house of
one's own-has changed what it means to grow up as part of the
post-industrial working class. 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. Silva argues that, for these
men and women, coming of age means coming to terms with the absence
of choice. As possibilities and hope contract, moving into
adulthood has been re-defined as a process of personal struggle-an
adult is no longer someone with a small home and a reliable car,
but someone who has faced and overcome personal demons to
reconstruct a transformed self. Indeed, rather than turn to
politics to restore the traditional working class, this generation
builds meaning and dignity through the struggle to exorcise the
demons of familial abuse, mental health problems, addiction, or
betrayal in past relationships. This dramatic and largely unnoticed
shift reduces becoming an adult to solitary suffering, self-blame,
and an endless seeking for signs of progress. This powerfully
written book focuses on those who are most vulnerable-young,
working-class people, including African-Americans, women, and
single parents-and reveals what, in very real terms, the demise of
the social safety net means to their fragile hold on the American
Dream.
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