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We were a working - class family and my mam and dad didn't have a whole lot of money. I was brought up in a working - class family. I was brought up by a good working - class family who were very, very hard workers. A family is a group of people who are related to each other, especially parents and their children. [...]
Millions of American families are living on the edge, increasingly suffering from volatile incomes, unstable jobs and low wealth. A father walks hand in hand with his daughter in Santa Fe, New...
American society has now experienced the rise and fall of a distinctive kind of home life: the working-class family.
College-educated and more affluent Americans enjoy relatively strong and stable marriages and the economic and social benefits that flow from such marriages. By contrast, not just poor but also working-class Americans face rising rates of family instability, single parenthood, and life-long singleness.
the working-class family. When analyzing the impacts of various influences on the working-class family, Cherlin focuses on the dynamics of the roles of husbands and wives along with the relationships between parents and children. Over time, he argues, industrialization helped redefine society’s understanding of manhood by introducing men
The New Inequality: The Decline of the Working Class Family. The Left often shies away from making a strong case for family values, despite the fact that family stability may be immensely beneficial for the working class and for black Americans who have high rates of single-mother families.
The working-class family in Marx is like the firm in neoclassical economics—a black box whose inner workings are simultaneously neglected and mystified. Marx abstracts from the problem of domestic labour by dealing with a situation in which all workers are engaged in capitalist production and perform no domestic labour whatsoever.
Working class is traditionally one of the 5 popularized classes in American socioeconomics including: upper, upper-middle, middle, working, lower. It includes people employed in manual, industrial work or the service industry.
Panelists talked about the state of the working class family. They focused on the well-being of children, family structure, and marriage dynamics.
“The Marriage Divide: How and Why Working Class Families Are More Fragile Today” demonstrates trends in family structure over the last several decades, and concludes that “poor and working class Americans pay a serious economic, social and psychological price for the fragility of their families.”