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Book SynopsisContributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labour.
Trade Review"Besen-Cassino counters conventional wisdom that young people take undesirable service-sector jobs only because they need the money... The author also offers a critical look at how youth turn to the workplace to fill gaps left by their impersonal educational institutions and at how workforce disparities based on race, gender, and class have their roots in workers' early experiences... VERDICT [T]his engaging read will appeal to scholars of the sociology of work, as well as some high school and college students and their teachers, mentors, and parents. It could also be of great use to those who hire millennials or who work to help economically disadvantaged young people." - Library Journal "Topics include motivations for part-time work among otherwise affluent youth." - Chronicle of Higher Education
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Consuming Work: Introduction to Youth Work in America 2 “Would You Like an Application with Your Coffee?” 3 Fun or Exploitation? The Lived Experience of Suburban Youth Work 4 Pay or Play? The Youth Labor Force in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries 5 “They Need Me Here”: Work as a Perceived Alternative to School 6 “White, Young, Middle Class”: Aesthetic Labor, Race, and Class in the Youth Labor Force 7 Origins of the Gender Wage Gap: Gender Inequality in the Youth Labor Force 8 Conclusion: The Economic Recession and the Future of Youth Labor Appendix: Notes on Methodology References Index
