Yasemin Besen-Cassino

Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Yasemin Besen-Cassino is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She is the co-author (with Dan Cassino) of Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding and the Youth Vote in America, and co-editor (with Michael Kimmel) of The Jessie Bernard Reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781439909492
• ISBN-10: 1439909490
• Artikelnr.: 38421828

Autorenporträt

Yasemin Besen-Cassino is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She is the co-author (with Dan Cassino) of Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding and the Youth Vote in America, and co-editor (with Michael Kimmel) of The Jessie Bernard Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
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