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Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials

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Availability:In StockContributor:Malcolm HarrisPublish date:2018-09-11Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316510851ISBN-10:316510858UPC:9780316510851Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Demography, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United StatesBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCJFVNQNQ1
In Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316510851ISBN-10:316510858UPC:9780316510851Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Demography, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United StatesBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCJFVNQNQ1
Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at the New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Bookforum, the Village Voice, n+1, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia.
Publisher: Back Bay Books

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