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9781592133550

Jobs Aren't Enough

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  • ISBN13:

    9781592133550

  • ISBN10:

    159213355X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-28
  • Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

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Summary

In this gripping ethnographic account, Roberta Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong examine the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income families in 21st century America. The 'voices' of twenty-five families in Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Seattle and of hundreds of people who are linked to the families' lives, show that the historic myths about opportunity, merit, and 'bootstraps' are outdated and, in some cases, downright dangerous for many urban workers and their families. Iversen and Armstrong show that the social institutions of family, education, labour market and policy all intersect to influence mobility.Jobs Aren't Enoughproposes a new mobility paradigm grounded in cooperation, collaboration, mutuality and revitalization of the 'public will' to maximize both "household and profit."

Author Biography

Annie Laurie Armstrong is the founder of Business Government Community Connections, a research and evaluation firm in Seattle.

Table of Contents

Are jobs enough for economic mobility?p. 1
From the old to the new economic mobilityp. 13
The parents : their backgrounds, lives, and locationsp. 29
The children : their lives and worldsp. 60
Workforce development : systems and networksp. 88
Yesterday's firms and today's families : connects and disconnectsp. 119
Children's schools, parents' work, and policy : alignment and misalignmentp. 175
Jobs aren't enough : toward an agenda for family economic mobilityp. 200
Afterword : what lies ahead for the New Orleans families after Hurricane Katrina?p. 214
Frequently asked questions about the research in this book : research designp. 219
Industry, firm, occupation, and wage information and projectionsp. 229
Resident family compositions and family story referencesp. 251
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