Andrew J Cherlin: 2 books
Labor's Love Lost
The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbers...
The Marriage-Go-Round
The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest...