Autor: Karen V. Hansen

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants …

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants …

Karen Hansen’s richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England’s working women and men—both white and black—n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries …

At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild …

In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America’s youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of fa …

In the 1960s and 1970swhen many communities resisted school integration and schools held low expectations for working-class kids and constricted teachers‘ autonomyeducators and students at a multirac …