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Abandoned families : social isolation in the twenty-first century / Kristin S. Seefeldt.

By: Publisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2017]Description: xv, 263 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780871547835 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Abandoned familiesDDC classification:
  • 306.850973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ536 .S3989 2017
Contents:
From social isolation to social abandonment -- Abandoned Detroit -- Abandoned by institutions of inclusion and stability: the failed promise of employment -- Abandoned by institutions of mobility: the failed promise of post-secondary education and home ownership -- Abandoned by the safety net: contestations, denials, and incompetence in benefit processing -- Debt: the new sharecropping system -- Making abandoned families striving families again.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

From social isolation to social abandonment -- Abandoned Detroit -- Abandoned by institutions of inclusion and stability: the failed promise of employment -- Abandoned by institutions of mobility: the failed promise of post-secondary education and home ownership -- Abandoned by the safety net: contestations, denials, and incompetence in benefit processing -- Debt: the new sharecropping system -- Making abandoned families striving families again.

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