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Author:

Seefeldt, Kristin S., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Russell Sage Foundation,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xv, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States.
Families--United States.
Poor families--United States.
Marginality, Social--United States.
Family services--United States.

Other Authors:

Russell Sage Foundation, issuing body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.

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.

ISBN:

087154783X
9780871547835

OCLC:

(OCoLC)968193352

LCCN:

2016023826

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)