Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

by Jennifer M. Silva

Book Overview

What does it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does the economic and social instability left in the wake of neoliberalism shape their identities, their understandings of the American Dream, and their futures?

Coming Up Short illuminates the transition to adulthood for working-class men and women. Moving away from easy labels such as the "Peter Pan generation," Jennifer Silva reveals the far bleaker picture of how the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190231890
• ISBN13: 9780190231897
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"