Katherine S. Newman

18 books

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S. Newman

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition

Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

320 pages | first published 2012

After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa by Katherine S. Newman, Ariane De Lannoy

After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

Katherine S. Newman, Ariane De Lannoy

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

296 pages | first published 2014

Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market by Katherine S. Newman

Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market

Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective fast-paced

405 pages

Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream by William Julius Wilson, Harry J. Holzer, Peter Orszag, Katherine S. Newman, Jared Bernstein, Hugh B. Price, Elizabeth Warren, John Karl Scholz, Anita Brown-Graham, Michael A. Stegman, Dennis K. Orthner, Arne L. Kalleberg, Melvin V. Oliver, Martin Eakes, Ruston Seaman, Carol Mendez Cassell, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Thomas M. Shapiro, Ronald B. Mincy, Angela Glover Blackwell, Marion G. Crain, Michael S. Barr, David K. Shipler, Jacob S. Hacker, Hillard Pouncy, David Spickard, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Michael Sherraden, Beth Shulman, John Edwards

Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream

William Julius Wilson, Harry J. Holzer, Peter Orszag, Katherine S. Newman, Jared Bernstein, Hugh B. Price, Elizabeth Warren, John Karl Scholz, Anita Brown-Graham, Michael A. Stegman, Dennis K. Orthner, Arne L. Kalleberg, Melvin V. Oliver, Martin Eakes, Ruston Seaman, Carol Mendez Cassell, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Thomas M. Shapiro, Ronald B. Mincy, Angela Glover Blackwell, Marion G. Crain, Michael S. Barr, David K. Shipler, Jacob S. Hacker, Hillard Pouncy, David Spickard, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Michael Sherraden, Beth Shulman, John Edwards

nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

288 pages | first published 2007

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence by Katherine S. Newman

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence

Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction sociology informative reflective slow-paced

342 pages | first published 1988

Law and Economic Organization: A Comparative Study of Preindustrial Studies by Katherine S. Newman

Law and Economic Organization: A Comparative Study of Preindustrial Studies

Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced

280 pages

The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America by Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen

The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America

Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen

nonfiction economics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

288 pages | first published 2007

No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman

No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City

Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction economics sociology challenging informative fast-paced

416 pages | first published 1999

Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Jal Mehta, David Harding, Cybelle Fox, Wendy Roth

Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings

Katherine S. Newman, Jal Mehta, David Harding, Cybelle Fox, Wendy Roth

nonfiction crime psychology true crime emotional reflective slow-paced

424 pages | first published 2004

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Hella Winston, Katherine S. Newman

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

Hella Winston, Katherine S. Newman

nonfiction business economics education informative inspiring slow-paced

272 pages | first published 2016