Dear RSF:

Please join us on Wednesday, October 16 for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Andrew Cherlin titled In the Shadow of Sparrows Point: Racialized Labor in the White and Black Working Classes.

Cherlin’s research is in the sociology of families and public policy. He has published books and articles on topics such as working-class families, marriage and divorce, children’s wellbeing, intergenerational relations, family policy, and welfare policy.  His most recent book is Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America (New  York: RSF, 2014).  His previous book is The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009).

Please note:  Cherlin will hold an informal study group on the working class, to which all visitors and program staff are invited, on Thursday, the 17^th,  10:00 – 11:00 in the Wanner conference room, on the ground floor of the townhouse.