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Promises I can keep : why poor women put motherhood before marriage.
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ISBN: 0520241134 0520248198 9780520248199 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

Working-class heroes
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ISBN: 1598750151 0520936655 128276277X 9786612762772 9780520936652 0585466041 9780585466040 9780520227873 0520227875 9780520235434 0520235436 9781598750157 9781282762770 6612762772 0520227875 0520235436 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.

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Social values --- Sociology, Urban --- Working class --- Values --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- Beltway (Chicago, Ill.) --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Chikago (Ill.) --- Chikaho (Ill.) --- City of Chicago (Ill.) --- Shiḳago (Ill.) --- Čikago (Ill.) --- شيكاغو (Ill.) --- Shīkāghū (Ill.) --- Çikaqo (Ill.) --- Чыкага (Ill.) --- Chykaha (Ill.) --- Чикаго (Ill.) --- Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) --- Σικάγο (Ill.) --- Sikago (Ill.) --- Kikako (Ill.) --- שיקגו (Ill.) --- Sicagum (Ill.) --- Chicagia (Ill.) --- Chiagum (Ill.) --- Čikāga (Ill.) --- シカゴ (Ill.) --- شکاگو (Ill.) --- Shikāgū (Ill.) --- Kyekago (Ill.) --- Tchicago (Ill.) --- שיקאגא (Ill.) --- Čėkaga (Ill.) --- 芝加哥 (Ill.) --- Zhijiage (Ill.) --- Race relations. --- Social conditions. --- Working class - Illinois - Chicago. --- Sociology, Urban - Illinois - Chicago. --- Social values - Illinois - Chicago. --- america. --- american history. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- beltway. --- chicago school. --- chicago. --- community. --- cultural geography. --- cultural historians. --- cultural perspective. --- demographic studies. --- ethnographers. --- firefighters. --- home. --- local history. --- neighborhood. --- office workers. --- police officers. --- regional history. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- southwest side chicago. --- stay at home mothers. --- urban studies. --- white working class. --- working class community. --- working class.


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Promises I can keep : why poor women put motherhood before marriage : with a new preface
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ISBN: 1283279746 9786613279743 0520950682 9780520950689 9781283279741 9780520271463 0520271467 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California,

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Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.

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