
Indebted
How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Caitlin Zaloom(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 4. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-691-21722-2 (ISBN)
Description
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty-providing their children with opportunity-and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty-providing their children with opportunity-and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-21722-2 (9780691217222)
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04/2022
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Caitlin Zaloom is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London.