Katherine Newman

Katherine S. Newman is the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, the director of the Joint Doctoral Programs in Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and Social Policy, and the director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of eight books on inequality, poverty, and mobility in American society.

Ebooks

Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings

No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City

The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged

Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age

Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality

Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence

Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor