caught in the whirlwind: working-class families face the economic crisis, johanna brenner

take-home: impact of economic crisis is being managed through family networks, but this is symptom of private nature of provision of most care. this fact--that so much is privately provided--means that it is working-class families that have borne the brunt, unable to solve their problems through the market provision of care due to unaffordability (see 72, 74, 76, 77)

(67): woman's earnings became more important to family incomes, but this was particularly true of working-class families. they explain much or all of the income growth in the last three decades, in families in the lower rungs of economic order

(69): 90% of bankruptcies were due to an event shock, very few tdue to overspending