What can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working-class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, examines issues playing a decisive role in our national discussion. Her lecture is titled, “The Tenuous Ties of Working Class Men”. Through the use of ethnographic and demographic data, she looks at the increasingly tenuous ties of the working class to work, family, and religion, as well as white men’s perception that they have fewer prospects than their fathers did. Edin, a professor at Princeton University, gives our Second Annual Lee Rainwater Lecture.
This event took place on September 20, 2018 and was hosted by The Graduate Center, CUNY. For more events at The Graduate Center, go to https://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/GC-Presents.