Katherine Newman

Katherine Newman appears in the following:

Roll Up Your Sleeves: Blue-Collar Jobs Need More Vocational Training

Friday, April 15, 2016

Manufacturing jobs are growing, but so far these positions have proven hard to fill, even when unemployment is high and millions are searching for work.

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The Post-Apartheid Generation in South Africa

Friday, April 25, 2014

This spring, South Africa will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of apartheid and the first free elections. Although the country has come far, the inequalities that once divided the races now grow within them. In After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa, award-winning sociologist Katherine S. Newman and Ariane De Lannoy profile seven people—black, white, “coloured,” and immigrant—to reveal what life is like in South Africa today.

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Stay-At-Home Kids

Friday, January 27, 2012

 Katherine Newman, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition, studies adult children in 6 countries living with their parents for economic reasons.

professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University and the 
author of
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition

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America’s Missing Class

Monday, December 31, 2007

57 million people in the United States live just above the poverty line. Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the near-poor Americans’ struggle to get by. She’s author of a book called The Missing Class.

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