Consuming work [electronic resource] : youth labor in America / Yasemin Besen-Cassino.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781439909508
- 1439909504
- 331.3/470973 23
- HD6273 .B47 2014
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.
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