TY - BOOK AU - Besen-Cassino,Yasemin ED - Project Muse. TI - Consuming work: youth labor in America SN - 9781439909508 AV - HD6273 .B47 2014 U1 - 331.3/470973 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Youth KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - Part-time employment KW - Employment KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781439909508/ ER -