Labor's Love Lost: How the Economy Built—and Unbuilt—the American Family
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America by Andrew J. Cherlin as a systems-level analysis of how economic institutions shape family life.
Rather than treating declining marriage as an isolated cultural problem, this Deep Dive examines the structural incentives, institutional persistence, and technological transformations that built the twentieth-century working-class family—and later reshaped it through automation, globalization, labor market polarization…
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