Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975

by Kathryn Grover

This collection of essays is one of the first comprehensive studies of the emergence of teenagers as an independent sector of society, alienated from the adult world and in pursuit of their own life-style. Teenage New Jersey explores the origins of this phenomenon during the Depression, when the scarcity of jobs forced an increasing number of teens into school, and through the World War II years, when teens acquired additional responsibilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911020314
• ISBN13: 9780911020311
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"