{"product_id":"holding-it-together-how-women-became-americas-safety-net-hardcover","title":"Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Calarco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. \u003ci\u003eHolding It Together\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the causes and dire consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica runs on women--women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolding It Together\u003c\/i\u003e draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country's social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women's work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, \u003ci\u003eHolding It Together\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Calarco is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, an expert on families, schools, and inequalities, and a mom of two. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Opportunities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Grad School\u003c\/i\u003e, the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eQualitative Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9.24 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964658811181,"sku":"9780593538128","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/holding-it-together-how-women-became-americas-safety-net-hardcover-9852652.webp?v=1775478008","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/holding-it-together-how-women-became-americas-safety-net-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}