Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America

Index

Index Absenteeism, 48 Academic performance, 6–7, 51, 90, 91, 103, 157 Accessories, 10, 14, 31, 33, 41, 43, 49, 54–55, 57, 60 Actor-centric research, 7 Adorno, Theodor, 1, 17–18, 58, 65 Adulthood, 6, 13, 71, 102, 104, 124, 141, 153 Adult supervision, 13, 66–67, 84–86 Aesthetic considerations, 34, 39–40, 42, 116, 117, 148–150, 151 Aesthetic labor, 21, 31, 40–42, 46, 79, 107–108, 111, 115–116, 121, 143, 145, 149–152 Affluence among youthful workers, 18–19, 29, 30–31, 46–47, 49–52, 68–69, 109–111; benefits of, in securing work, 21, 30–31, 41–43, 46, 69, 108, 110–111, 152; dominance of, in the workforce, 2, 19, 20, 144–145; and race, 111–112, 115, 117–118, 121; and reasons for working, 8, 19, 46, 105, 108, 144 Agricultural labor, 5, 8, 11, 156 Alcohol consumption, 7, 127 Alienation, 48, 79, 83 Anti-teenager policies, 86 Appearance, physical. See Aesthetic considerations Authority, 52, 54 Availability of jobs for young people, 12, 13, 28, 41–42, 69, 73, 102, 114, 117, 133, 145, 148 Babysitting, 5, 11, 25, 131 “Bad” jobs, 2, 48–52, 62, 66–67, 69 Beck, Ulrich, 1 Benevolent exploitation, 139–140 Best, Amy, 14–15 Bills, David, 5, 12, 51, 89, 100, 103–105 Blink decisions, 40, 45, 150 Blumer, Herbert, 54, 67 Bourdieu, Pierre, 33, 40–41, 43, 107, 117, 151 Branding, 15–17, 19–21, 25, 31, 32–34, 63–64, 110, 105, 145, 152 Brands, 10, 15–16, 19–20, 24–26, 29, 32–35, 37–39, 43–45, 47, 63–64, 67–68, 109–111, 115, 117–118, 145, 152; loyalty to, 15, 17, 38 Car, 1, 16–18, 44, 48–49, 63 Career, 4, 38, 56, 98, 100–104 Child care, 125, 143 Child labor, 2, 4, 25, 73, 132 Class, 8, 12, 14, 17–18, 28, 31–32, 40–46, 49, 68, 100, 103, 107–109, 111, 115–118, 120, 141, 144, 148–150, 158, 161. See also Affluence among youthful workers Clothing, 2, 15, 17, 31, 33, 35, 40, 41, 43, 46, 48–49, 54–55, 58, 63–65, 108, 112, 116–117; stores selling, 2, 13, 30, 33–35, 37, 46, 108, 110–112, 117, 122 Coffee shop, 54–55, 61 College-bound young people, 6, 100, 102 Collegial exclusion, 139, 142 Commodity, 16, 84 Composition of labor force, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 20, 76, 80, 107, 140, 144, 156 Condescending chivalry, 139, 140 186 Index Confidence in education, 82, 95, 139 Connell, R. W., 141 Considerate domination, 139 Consumers, 14, 16, 17, 18–19, 25–26, 31, 34–35, 38, 47, 59, 65, 85, 111, 117, 151 Consumption, 9–10, 14–18, 24–25, 35, 38, 43– 44, 47, 59–60, 63–64, 67, 117–118, 145–150, 152; conspicuous, 17; habits of, 9–10, 12, 14, 17, 26, 30, 35, 38, 40, 45, 107, 118, 150 Control, 48, 52–56, 66–67, 84, 151 Crime, 6–7, 111, 113, Cultural capital, 40, 43, 148 Curfew, 84–85 Current Population Survey, 11–12, 113, 154, 162 Customer-oriented service, 152 Decommodified workers, 4 Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1 Discipline, 6, 101, 104, 113 Discount, 19, 35, 36, 38, 44, 47, 63, 68, 76, 97, 108, 111, 117 Domestic duties, 21, 125, 136 Domination, considerate, 139 Dropout, 110, 118, 144; rates of, 6, 90 Drug use, 7, 127 Economic factors: economically disadvantaged youth, 14, 19–21, 42, 46, 47, 111, 114, 120, 144–145, 149; recession, 10, 22, 36, 112, 144, 148. See also Socioeconomic status Education, 18, 20, 21, 30, 40, 45, 72, 75–79, 82–83, 87, 89, 91–96, 98–99, 100, 101–106, 109, 111, 115, 124–125, 130–131, 136, 139– 140, 143, 146–147, 151, 154, 156, 160–161 Elder, Glen, 5 Elderly, 152 Eliza Doolittle Syndrome, 149–150 Embodied dispositions, 40, 120 Embodied style of service, 31 Emotion work, 30 Employee-type jobs, 11, 24–25, 123, 126, 131–134, 137 Ethnicity, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 54, 107, 112, 114, 115, 118, 120, 126, 154–155. See also Race Ethnography, 8–10, 20, 33, 34, 41, 141 Exploitation, ix, x, 48, 49, 50, 67, 72, 139, 140 Face-to-face interview, 9, 156 Fair Labor Standards Act, 4 Family, 3, 5, 7, 9, 18, 26, 37, 49, 60, 70, 86, 96, 97, 102, 109, 115, 120, 134, 142, 153, 155; businesses owned by, 4, 7, 25 Fashionable image...