Chutes and ladders : navigating the low-wage labor market

Publication Data

• Title Chutes and ladders : navigating the low-wage labor market
• Author Katherine S. Newman
• Publisher Russell Sage Foundation
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location New York, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

The best-case scenario / Katherine S. Newman and Chauncy Lennon
High flyers, low riders, and the "up but not out" club
All in the family
The national picture / Helen Connolly, Peter Gottschalk, and Katherine S. Newman
Streetwise economics
Victor Tan Chen and Katherine S. Newman
"This is the kind of life I want" : work and welfare in the boom years
Dreams, deferred : aspirations and obstacles in work and family life
Opening the gates.

Topics

• Minorities :: Employment :: New York (State) :: New York
• Career development :: United States
• Social mobility :: United States
• Working poor :: United States
• United States :: Economic conditions :: 1981-2001
• United States :: Economic policy :: 1993-2001
• United States

Chutes and ladders : navigating the low-wage labor market by Katherine S. Newman. ISBN 9780674023369. Published by Russell Sage Foundation in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.