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Consuming work

Besen-Cassino, Yasemin.

Consuming work youth labor in America / [electronic resource] : Yasemin Besen-Cassino. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Consuming work : introduction to youth work in America -- Would you like a job application with your coffee? -- Fun or exploitation? -- Pay or play? : US youth labor force and other industrialized countries with a comparative perspective -- "They need me here" : work as an alternative to school? -- "White, young, middle-class" : aesthetic labor, race and class in the youth labor force -- Origins of the gender wage gap : gender differences in the labor force -- Conclusion: the economic recession and the future of youth labor -- Appendix: tables and figures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9781439909508 1439909504


Youth--Social conditions.--United States
Part-time employment--United States.
Youth--Employment--United States.


Electronic books.

HD6273 / .B47 2014

331.3/470973