Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income
Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income
Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330579923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Excerpt from Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income: Its Foundation in a Fair Start; The Man's Earnings; The Woman's Contribution; The Cooperation of the Community The following discussion is addressed to all those who are inclined to give thoughtful attention to the present-day problems of the family, an institution which is imperfect as man in his development is imperfect, but which reflects every advance in social standards, and is doubtless destined to be modified very profoundly by further social evolution. Such progress will turn in part upon the results of scientific inquiry. Among those to whom the book may be of interest are professional students of the social and economic aspects of the family; home economics students in schools and colleges, men and women who are trying to solve the problems of their own homes, and groups of club women and others who are taking up part-time studies of the home. While it has seemed desirable to draw illustrations from one group, that which is living on the "moderate" income and made up of adults and dependent children, yet it is hoped that principles are evolved which are applicable to many other types and conditions. The whole object of the study is o discover what are the factors of success in its best sense. For those who are debarred from creative self-expression in t he recognized forms of art, there is yet the Art of Living, which includes self-development, a use of all personal resources and an adjustment of our relations to those near us and to the community. For most people this art of living, especially as practised in the family group, must remain the greatest of all arts. The author's thanks are due to Dr. Edward T. Devine for the use of five of the family monographs gathered by his classes in Social Economics in Columbia University, the facts and figures of which have been arranged on a uniform plan, to make comparison easy. Grateful acknowledgment is made to many friends whose contribution of data has broadened the fact basis of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Employee Ownership
Author: Joseph R. BlasiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Maid
Author: Stephanie LandPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316505102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
The Long Shadow
Author: Karl AlexanderPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress. But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual “urban underclass” depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore’s inner city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early-life opportunities available to low-income populations. The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. For 25 years, the authors of The Long Shadow tracked the life progress of a group of almost 800 predominantly low-income Baltimore school children through the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP). The study monitored the children’s transitions to young adulthood with special attention to how opportunities available to them as early as first grade shaped their socioeconomic status as adults. The authors’ fine-grained analysis confirms that the children who lived in more cohesive neighborhoods, had stronger families, and attended better schools tended to maintain a higher economic status later in life. As young adults, they held higher-income jobs and had achieved more personal milestones (such as marriage) than their lower-status counterparts. Differences in race and gender further stratified life opportunities for the Baltimore children. As one of the first studies to closely examine the outcomes of inner-city whites in addition to African Americans, data from the BSSYP shows that by adulthood, white men of lower status family background, despite attaining less education on average, were more likely to be employed than any other group in part due to family connections and long-standing racial biases in Baltimore’s industrial economy. Gender imbalances were also evident: the women, who were more likely to be working in low-wage service and clerical jobs, earned less than men. African American women were doubly disadvantaged insofar as they were less likely to be in a stable relationship than white women, and therefore less likely to benefit from a second income. Combining original interviews with Baltimore families, teachers, and other community members with the empirical data gathered from the authors’ groundbreaking research, The Long Shadow unravels the complex connections between socioeconomic origins and socioeconomic destinations to reveal a startling and much-needed examination of who succeeds and why.
Economic Lives
Author: Viviana A. ZelizerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069115810X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Revealing the human side of economic life Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time. Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer. Economic Lives ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity—as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises. Providing an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field, Economic Lives promises to be widely read and discussed.
Bulletin
Author: Housewifery
Author: Lydia Ray BalderstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chores
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Book Bulletin
Author: The Standard of Life in a Typical Section of Diversified Farming
Author: Ellis Lore KirkpatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description