Consuming work
Subtitle: youth labor in America
By: Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781439909485; 9781439909492
Subjects: Youth; Social conditions; Employment; Part-time employment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Consuming work : introduction to youth work in America; title: "Would you like a job application with your coffee?"; title: Fun or exploitation? : the lived experience of suburban youth work; title: Pay or play? : the youth labor force in the United States and other industrialized countries; title: "They need me here" : work as a perceived alternative to school; title: "White, young, middle-class" : aesthetic labor, race and class in the youth labor force; title: Origins of the gender wage gap : gender inequality in the youth labor force; title: Conclusion: the economic recession and the future of youth labor.