Cut loose : jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy /

"Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment, increasingly unlikely to get another good job in their lifetimes. Based on a careful crossnational comparison, "Cut Loose" describes the expe...

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Main Author: Chen, Victor Tan, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a They had it coming -- All this garbage from life : retraining and the capital speedup -- Decline and fall: hardship, race, and the social safety net -- Half a man: fragile families and the unmarriageable unemployed -- Vicious circles: the structure of power and the culture of judgment -- Loser: the failures of the american dream -- There go I. 
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