Falling from Grace
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ambition
american dream
anti capitalism
Author_Katherine S. Newman
business economics
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class
class crisis
class stratification
depression
divorce
downsizing
downward mobility
earnings
economic conditions
economic decline
economic downturn
economics
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family
growth crisis
housewives
job loss
labor
layoffs
mergers
middle class
middle managers
nonfiction
plant closings
post divorce
post industrial economy
poverty
single mothers
social issues
social science
social theory
sociology
success
unemployment
work
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780520218420
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the last three decades, millions of people have slipped through a loophole in the American dream and become downwardly mobile as a result of downsizing, plant closings, mergers, and divorce: the middle-aged computer executive laid off during an industry crisis, blue-collar workers phased out of the post-industrial economy, middle managers whose positions have been phased out, and once-affluent housewives stranded with children and a huge mortgage as the result of divorce. Anthropologist Katherine S. Newman interviewed a wide range of men, women, and children who experienced a precipitous fall from middle-class status, and her book documents their stories. For the 1999 edition, Newman has provided a new preface and updated the extensive data on job loss and downward mobility in the American middle class, documenting its persistence, even in times of prosperity.
Katherine S. Newman is Ford Foundation Professor of Urban Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the author of No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (1999), Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream (1994), and Law and Economic Organization (1983).
