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Cut Loose
Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy
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Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2015
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Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of greater inequality and risk, one that favors the well-educated—or well-connected.
Their declining fortunes in recent decades tell us something about what the white-collar workforce should expect to see in the years ahead, as job-killing technologies and the shipping of work overseas take away even more good jobs. Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today’s unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis. It is also a call to action—a blueprint for a new kind of politics, one that offers a measure of grace in a society of ruthless advancement.
Their declining fortunes in recent decades tell us something about what the white-collar workforce should expect to see in the years ahead, as job-killing technologies and the shipping of work overseas take away even more good jobs. Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today’s unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis. It is also a call to action—a blueprint for a new kind of politics, one that offers a measure of grace in a society of ruthless advancement.
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Contributor: Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the founding editor of In the Fray magazine. He is the coauthor, with Katherine S. Newman, of The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America.
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Acknowledgments
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CHAPTER 1. They Had It Coming
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CHAPTER 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup
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CHAPTER 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net
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CHAPTER 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed
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CHAPTER 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment
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CHAPTER 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream
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CHAPTER 7. There Go I
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Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details
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Notes
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Index
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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
unemployment; auto industry; american auto industry; american economy; class inequality; laid off workers; income inequality; industrial economic relations; 21st century american economy; economic concerns; great recession; worker; labor; car industry; autoworkers; economy; american history; working class; job killing technology; work overseas; call to action; labor policy; technology; factory work; depressed economy; morality; ethics; politics; political; historical; business; middle class; sociology
