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Kids These Days : Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316510866
ISBN-139780316510868
eBay Product ID (ePID)237082478
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Book TitleKids These Days : Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicEconomic History, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / 21st Century
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorMalcolm Harris
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"MalcolmHarris's thesis is the kind of brilliantly simple idea that instantly clarifiesan entire area of culture: Millennials are the way they are-anxious, harried,and 'narcissistically' self-focused, though hardly lazy orentitled-because the neoliberal economy has made them so. When we raisechildren in a world that reduces people to 'human capital', then bidsdown the price of that resource, what else should we expect? Kids These Days is deft, witty, unillusioned, and brutally frank. Read it and weep, puke,scream."-- William Deresiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep
Dewey Decimal305.2420973
SynopsisMillennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: We are the most educated and hardworking generation in American history. We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st-century labor market. We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit. We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot. Kids These Days is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off. Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up., Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clich s about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: We are the most educated and hardworking generation in American history. We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st-century labor market. We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit. We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot. Kids These Days is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off. Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up.
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Harris makes a compelling case that the oft-caricatured behaviors of millenials are not the products of narcissism, laziness, or over-sensitivity, but rather of a shift in class relations that has put increased burdens on labor. While he could do with more citations, his argument is strong and eye-opening. A good read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
