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Katherine S. Newman

Born

in Palo Alto, CA, The United States

February 21, 1953

Website

http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_a...

Genre

Nonfiction, Social Sciences

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Katherine Newman is Professor of Sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Author of several books on middle class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, she previously taught at the University of California (Berkeley), Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 1,501 ratings · 202 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City 3.75 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, Wendy Roth 3.85 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America by Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston 3.65 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality 3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition 3.42 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market 3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa by Katherine S. Newman, Ariane De Lannoy 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence 3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Wildavsky Forum Series) (Volume 7) by Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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