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Abandoned families : social isolation in the twenty-first century
- Title
- Abandoned families : social isolation in the twenty-first century / Kristin S. Seefeldt.
- Author
- Seefeldt, Kristin S.
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xv, 263 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers, particularly African Americans, and analyzes how economic and residential segregation keep them from achieving the American Dream of upward mobility."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Families > United States
- Poor families > United States
- Marginality, Social > United States
- Family services > United States
- African American families > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions
- Economic history
- Families
- Family services
- Marginality, Social
- Poor families
- Social conditions
- United States > Economic conditions
- United States > Social conditions
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
- Contents
- From social isolation to social abandonment -- Abandoned Detroit -- Abandoned by institutions of inclusion and stability: the failed promise of employment -- Abandoned by institutions of mobility: the failed promise of post-secondary education and home ownership -- Abandoned by the safety net: contestations, denials, and incompetence in benefit processing -- Debt: the new sharecropping system -- Making abandoned families striving families again.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1380
- ISBN
- 9780871547835
- 087154783X
- LCCN
- 2016023826
- OCLC
- 968193352
- Author
- Seefeldt, Kristin S., author.
- Title
- Abandoned families : social isolation in the twenty-first century / Kristin S. Seefeldt.
- Publisher
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1380