Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity

by Allison J. Pugh

Book Overview

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society where relationships and jobs seem to change constantly. Based on eighty in-depth interviews with parents who have varied experiences of job insecurity and socio-economic status, Pugh finds most seem to accept job insecurity as inevitable but still try to bar that insecurity from infiltrating their home...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199957711
• ISBN13: 9780199957712
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"