
The Tuesday Podcast: When A Dead-End Job Isn’t A Dead End
On today’s Planet Money, we hear the answer from Katherine Newman.
Newman, a sociologist, found 300 people who were working at fast-food restaurants in Harlem in the early ’90s. She followed them for the next eight years and told the story in a book called Chutes and Ladders.
This book now skips ahead in my queue.