Consuming work [electronic resource] : youth labor in America / Yasemin Besen-Cassino.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin.
2014
HD6273 .B47 2014eb
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Title Consuming work [electronic resource] : youth labor in America / Yasemin Besen-Cassino.
Author Besen-Cassino, Yasemin.
ISBN 9781439909508 (electronic book)
9781439909485
9781439909492
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
Call Number HD6273 .B47 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.3/470973
Summary Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students' consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working. In Consuming Work, Yasemin Besen-Cassino reveals that many American high school and college students work for social reasons, not monetary gain. Most are affluent, suburban, white youth employed in part-time jobs at places like the Coffee Bean so they can be associated with a cool brand, hangout with their friends, and get discounts.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgements
Consuming work : introduction to youth work in America
Would you like a job application with your coffee?
Fun or exploitation?
Pay or play? : US youth labor force and other industrialized countries with a comparative perspective
"They need me here" : work as an alternative to school?
"White, young, middle-class" : aesthetic labor, race and class in the youth labor force
Origins of the gender wage gap : gender differences in the labor force
Conclusion: the economic recession and the future of youth labor
Appendix: tables and figures
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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