Not Working
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Not Working: Losing a Job in Today's Great Recession
By D. W. GibsonIn telling the stories of people who could be our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, "Not Working" holds up a mirror to our times, showing us the individuals behind the unemployment statistics--their fears and hopes--and offering a map ...
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Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
By David G. BlanchflowerPressman, S. D., and S. Cohen. 2005. “Does Positive Affect Influence Health?” Psychological Bulletin 131 (6): 925–71. ... New York: Simon and Schuster. ———. 2015. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy
By DW GibsonHis name is Francis 'cause he's like...Francis. That band is called The Pernicious Unicats. I did not name it.” Her short bangs rest just above her dark eyebrows. She's 33 and originally from Ohio. Her grandfather was an engineer for ...
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Not Working: A Novel
By Lisa OwensIn the tradition of Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses comes a “a pin-sharp, utterly addictive debut” (Vogue U.K.) told in vignettes that speak to a new generation not trying to have it all but hoping to make sense of it all. ...
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Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
By David G. BlanchflowerEspecially urgent now, Not Working is an essential guide to strengthening the labor market for all when we need it most.
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Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
By Josh CohenHow inactivity can be a necessary and creative condition to a life worth living.
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Not Working: An Oral History of the Unemployed
By Harry MaurerNot Working: An Oral History of the Unemployed
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Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
By David G. BlanchflowerIn 1960, 35 percent of households below the 25th percentile of household income did not have indoor plumbing. ... Working mothers in particular give up leisure and sleep, compared to mothers not in the labor force, to meet the demands ...
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Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
By Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne TheoharisThen she continued enumerating a list of California's new welfare rules: Parents who do not produce their ... Surrounded by a roomful of working people who were daily living with the reality that work does not protect a family from the ...
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Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada
By Stephen McBrideSome 300 alphabetical entries examine women of distinction in American theatre--actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, critics, agents, etc. The entries describe the women's professional contributions and provide biographical information and...
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Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
By Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne TheoharisNot Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it.