LSE Festival 2021: ‘you try not to eat’: what joblessness means for low-paid women in Pennsylvania

Damaske, Sarah (2021) LSE Festival 2021: ‘you try not to eat’: what joblessness means for low-paid women in Pennsylvania. LSE COVID-19 Blog (04 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Losing your job is difficult for anyone, but for working-class women without savings it is even harder. Sarah Damaske (Penn State University) talked to women in low-wage jobs in Pennsylvania who struggled to afford to feed their families or pay for childcare so they could look for work.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2021 13:15
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110001

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