Katherine S. Newman
Author of No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
About the Author
Katherine S. Newman is the James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. The author of ten books on middle-class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, Newman has taught at the University of show more California-Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton. show less
Image credit: Still from Ford School video: "Katherine Newman: Portraits of the Near Poor in America" https://youtu.be/YEQLGyb3ubQ
Series
Works by Katherine S. Newman
After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa (2014) 17 copies, 7 reviews
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition (2012) 16 copies
Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age (2010) 12 copies
Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity (A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization… (2008) 5 copies
Blocked by Caste: Economic Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Modern India (2010) — Editor — 3 copies
Associated Works
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contributor, some editions — 525 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1953-02-21
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- teacher
university administrator
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Reviews
Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age… by Katherine S. Newman
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Another negative book review from me. For Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston, the problem is not a lack of research, but rather that the book, like American society in general, has no real way to grapple with the fact that some kids aren’t as smart as others. Any vocational ed program in the United States is going to have a problem with averages that we aren’t capable of resolving.
Freddie deBoer or Paige Harden will be happy to point out why this is so. If that isn’t enough, consider that someone who writes a book like No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut that does attempt to grapple with this in a constructive way, does so under a pseudonym.
Until something big changes, vocational education programs will keep getting proposed, and keep dying for this big, but largely unacknowledged reason. All of the carefully assembled research cited in this volume means nothing until that happens.
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program.… (more)
Freddie deBoer or Paige Harden will be happy to point out why this is so. If that isn’t enough, consider that someone who writes a book like No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut that does attempt to grapple with this in a constructive way, does so under a pseudonym.
Until something big changes, vocational education programs will keep getting proposed, and keep dying for this big, but largely unacknowledged reason. All of the carefully assembled research cited in this volume means nothing until that happens.
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program.… (more)
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Lists
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- 630
- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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