Pinched
Subtitle: how the great recession has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it
By: Don Peck
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers; Crown Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780307886521; 9780307886538; 9780307886545
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Recessions; Working class; Middle class
Description: Presents cautionary predictions about American life in the aftermath of the recession that describes long-term consequences being faced by Americans from every walk of life.
Table of contents: title: Not your father's recession; title: The two-speed society; title: Two depressions and a long malaise; title: Generation "R": the great recession and America's youth; title: Housebound: the middle class after the bust; title: Plutonomy: the very rich in recession and recovery; title: Underclass: men and family in a jobless age; title: The politics of the next ten years; title: A way forward.