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Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
- ISBN-13978-0520277656
- Edition1st
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateJuly 31, 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- File size895 KB
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Editorial Reviews
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"Revelatory." -- Helaine Olen ― Pacific Standard Published On: 2015-01-05
"Cut Adrift could well serve as a guide and touchstone . . . for the many occasions on which scholars and activists explore the consequences of increasing inequality and uneven vulnerability to economic risk." ― American Journal of Sociology (AJS) Published On: 2016-01-01
"Cooper’s analysis is nuanced and incisive, her writing is clear and engaging, her reasoning is logical, and her conclusions are well justified. This book helps establish security in the suite of outcomes that concern those conducting research and teaching in the area of social inequality." ― Gender and Society Published On: 2015-02-11
"Cooper’s interviewees are fascinating, heartbreakingly optimistic in their poverty or head-shakingly preoccupied with their wealth (which is never enough). . . . A well-told, personal representation of what’s happened to real people in times of 'income stagnation, growing inequality, increasing economic instability, soaring debt, and rising costs.'” ― Booklist Published On: 2014-07-01
From the Inside Flap
"Too often the statistics about rising insecurity crowd out the real-life stories of families struggling to adjust to new realities. With this deeply researched examination of families living in the nation s tech capital of Silicon Valley, Marianne Cooper reminds us why the statistics matter. She offers not only a wrenching journey into the lives of the insecure but a revealing framework for understanding the varied ways in which Americans are coping, or not, with increased financial risk and strain." Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, author of The Great Risk Shift and Winner-Take-All Politics.
"With great insight, Marianne Cooper shows us how Americans are coping in an era of heightened economic anxiety with the wealthier seeking ever greater financial security and the poorer trying to accommodate ever greater precariousness. Such upscaling and downscaling explains much of the emotional reality behind the menacing economic conditions in modern America." Robert Reich, Chancellor s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
"By providing a glimpse into the lives of families under economic pressure, Cooper enables us to see what happens when a nation fails to modernize its relationship to women and helps us understand what we need to do about it.." Maria Shriver, mother, award-winning journalist and producer, founder of The Shriver Report, and former First Lady of California.
"Cut Adrift is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Cooper s study of families from different social classes shows how worries about financial security penetrate the rhythm of daily life in all of the families (albeit in different ways). The book has impressive ethnographic detail, clarity of the analysis, and originality. My students loved it. Highly recommended!" Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, President, American Sociological Association
"Talking with moms at soccer matches, accompanying anxious shoppers at the mall, listening to news of a pink slip, Marianne Cooper takes an emotion-sensing stethoscope to the hearts of parents from richest to poorest in Silicon Valley, California. In an age of insecurity, Cooper finds that each family assigns a 'designated worrier' to manage anxiety about drawing to or going over the financial edge. This is a brilliant book and a must-read." Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift, The Outsourced Self, and So How s the Family? and Other Essays.
"An important and insightful examination of family life during an economic downturn." Vicki Smith, University of California, Davis, author of Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
"A poignant, powerful story of how families are coping with rampant economic insecurity." Allison Pugh, University of Virginia, author of Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
From the Back Cover
"Too often the statistics about rising insecurity crowd out the real-life stories of families struggling to adjust to new realities. With this deeply researched examination of families living in the nation’s tech capital of Silicon Valley, Marianne Cooper reminds us why the statistics matter. She offers not only a wrenching journey into the lives of the insecure but a revealing framework for understanding the varied ways in which Americans are coping, or not, with increased financial risk and strain."―Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, author of The Great Risk Shift and Winner-Take-All Politics.
"With great insight, Marianne Cooper shows us how Americans are coping in an era of heightened economic anxiety―with the wealthier seeking ever greater financial security and the poorer trying to accommodate ever greater precariousness. Such upscaling and downscaling explains much of the emotional reality behind the menacing economic conditions in modern America."―Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
"By providing a glimpse into the lives of families under economic pressure, Cooper enables us to see what happens when a nation fails to modernize its relationship to women and helps us understand what we need to do about it.."―Maria Shriver, mother, award-winning journalist and producer, founder of The Shriver Report, and former First Lady of California.
"Cut Adrift is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Cooper’s study of families from different social classes shows how worries about financial security penetrate the rhythm of daily life in all of the families (albeit in different ways). The book has impressive ethnographic detail, clarity of the analysis, and originality. My students loved it. Highly recommended!"―Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, President, American Sociological Association
"Talking with moms at soccer matches, accompanying anxious shoppers at the mall, listening to news of a pink slip, Marianne Cooper takes an emotion-sensing stethoscope to the hearts of parents―from richest to poorest―in Silicon Valley, California. In an age of insecurity, Cooper finds that each family assigns a 'designated worrier' to manage anxiety about drawing to―or going over―the financial edge. This is a brilliant book and a must-read."―Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift, The Outsourced Self, and So How’s the Family? and Other Essays.
"An important and insightful examination of family life during an economic downturn."―Vicki Smith, University of California, Davis, author of Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
"A poignant, powerful story of how families are coping with rampant economic insecurity."―Allison Pugh, University of Virginia, author of Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
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Product details
- ASIN : B00JNMCBH6
- Publisher : University of California Press; 1st edition (July 31, 2014)
- Publication date : July 31, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 895 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 315 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,976,727 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #765 in Income Inequality
- #797 in Sociology of Marriage & Family (Kindle Store)
- #1,052 in Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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About the author
Marianne Cooper, Ph.D. is a sociologist at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
She was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg and is a contributor to LeanIn.org.
She is the author of Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, which examines how families are coping in an insecure age. She is an expert on gender, family life, work, economic insecurity, and social and economic inequality. She writes, speaks, and consults about these issues for media outlets, professional groups, and companies such as Amazon, American Express, and Kraft.
Dr. Cooper received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and two young children.
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All that being said.... I couldn't help but feel irked by the author's indirect implication that somehow the problem is entirely the fault of "government" or "the system". I got an uncomfortable sense of implied entitlement from some of the stories. Yes, much of the situation is beyond any individual's control, but at the same time, many of those who are in sketchy economic shape did a lot to get themselves there through their own poor choices.
I felt that the author lacked a broader sense of the human economic condition over the course of history. The period of prosperity in the US following WWII was just that--- a PERIOD of prosperity. However, the generations just now emerging from the end of that period haven't quite come to grips with the fact that that period is ending. History marches on, and Americans cannot expect to have the same degree of financial security that their parents or grandparents (after the Depression ended) enjoyed. Certainly we would like to, and there was always the myth of having one's children enjoy a higher standard of living than one's own, but the fact is that economic history evolves. Time moves on, the world changes, and economies and nations react to events beyond any one government's control. The prosperity of the last half of the 20th century lulled Americans into a false sense of economic complacency--- "Wouldn't things ALWAYS be this good?"
Of course, at the opposite end of the spectrum you have the wealthy folks who also participated in the author's study, who obviously have done quite well and yet STILL feel insecurity on behalf of their children. There's a lot to be said for the fear instilled by the "flattening" of the globe. These folks aren't wrong to be concerned--- the playing field has become a lot more crowded as globalization has robbed the US of its economic hegemony. Competition for the best jobs (and the best standard of living) has become fierce at the top. And the people at the top have no doubt seen how many of their own peers have so easily slipped down the socioeconomic ladder.
The picture that Cooper paints is indeed troubling, and the issues are very real. The times are indeed insecure.... but was there ever REALLY any true security? Just how much economic security do any of us have a right to expect? The programs instituted by Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930's did indeed begin knitting a financial safety net for the American people that had an enormous impact on the national economic psyche.... but remember, if WWII had not come along, we have no idea how well those programs would ultimately have fared. It was the War that sent America on an economic rocket ship that only began sputtering 50 years later. New times present new challenges. And the events and measures that improved economic security for Americans in the last century are behind us.
So this is an interesting read, but it does feel as though the perspective is a bit narrow.
discern political shortcomings that worsen the problems of ordinary citizens who lose jobs through no fault of their own with
very difficult recovery options while these same wonderful ordinary citizens cope with incredible stress, raising families. Life mus go on..
The inspiration was to remember her and the book and also talk about it to other people.