Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence
ISBN-10
0520218426
ISBN-13
9780520218420
Series
Falling from Grace
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
1999-02-26
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Katherine S. Newman

Description

Anthropologist Katherine Newman offers an ethnographic examination of the fall from middle class status by Americans who thought their lives were secure. In addition to brief revisions throughout the book, chapter two of the original edition has been rewritten and the data updated with reference to studies done in the 90s. Newman has also provided a new preface and a supplementary bibliography.

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