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Working Hard and Making Do - Surviving in Small Town America (Paperback)
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Working Hard and Making Do - Surviving in Small Town America (Paperback)
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The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new
jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little.
Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a
significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what
people could expect from their waged employment. In this book,
Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households
of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with
large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the
downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender
dynamics, and political attitudes.
Drawing on both randomly distributed telephone surveys and in-depth
interviews, Nelson and Smith explore the differences in the
survival strategies of two groups of working-class households in a
rural county: those in which at least one family member has been
able to hold on to good work (a year-round, full-time job that
carries benefits) and those in which nobody has been able to secure
or retain steady employment. They find that households with good
jobs are able to effectively use all of their labor power--they
rely on two workers; they engage in on-the-side businesses; and
they barter with friends and neighbors. In contrast, those living
in families without at least one good job find themselves
considerably less capable of deploying a complex, multi-faceted
survival strategy. The authors further demonstrate that this
difference between the two sets of households is accompanied by
differences in the gender division of labor within the household
and the manner in which individuals make sense of, and respond to,
their employment.
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