Katherine S. Newman
Autor(a) de No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
About the Author
Katherine S. Newman is the James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. The author of ten books on middle-class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, Newman has taught at the University of mostrar mais California-Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton. mostrar menos
Image credit: Still from Ford School video: "Katherine Newman: Portraits of the Near Poor in America" https://youtu.be/YEQLGyb3ubQ
Séries
Obras de Katherine S. Newman
Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press) (2006) 47 cópias
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for the Public Policy) (2011) 27 cópias
After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa (2014) 17 cópias
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition (2012) 16 cópias
Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age (2010) 12 cópias
Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity (A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization… (2008) 5 cópias
Blocked by Caste: Economic Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Modern India (2010) — Editor — 3 cópias
Associated Works
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 514 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1953-02-21
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Ocupação
- teacher
university administrator
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age… de Katherine S. Newman
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.I had a very difficult time reading this book. It piointed out many of the flaws in our system of caring for our retirees using case studies that were upsetting but did not offer any solutions either personal or societal.
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.Another negative book review from me. For Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston, the problem is not a lack of research, but rather that the book, like American society in general, has no real way to grapple with the fact that some kids aren’t as smart as others. Any vocational ed program in the United States is going to have a problem with averages that we aren’t capable of resolving.
Freddie deBoer or Paige Harden will be happy to point out why this is so. If that isn’t enough, consider that someone who writes a book like No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut that does attempt to grapple with this in a constructive way, does so under a pseudonym.
Until something big changes, vocational education programs will keep getting proposed, and keep dying for this big, but largely unacknowledged reason. All of the carefully assembled research cited in this volume means nothing until that happens.
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program.… (mais)
Freddie deBoer or Paige Harden will be happy to point out why this is so. If that isn’t enough, consider that someone who writes a book like No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut that does attempt to grapple with this in a constructive way, does so under a pseudonym.
Until something big changes, vocational education programs will keep getting proposed, and keep dying for this big, but largely unacknowledged reason. All of the carefully assembled research cited in this volume means nothing until that happens.
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program.… (mais)
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.Interesting and informative book that tackles the impending youth underskilling and underemployment crisis looming. I don't know that I'm convinced that the cultural and policy shifts necessary are politically realistic, but the book is very persuasive of the problem and the need for some way to address it.
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.I got "Downhill From Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality" by Katherine S. Newman as a gag gift for my parents who will be retiring in the next ten years or so. Turns out it is pretty good and is not so much of a gag gift after all.
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- 18
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- Membros
- 610
- Popularidade
- #41,203
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 32
- ISBNs
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