Working and Growing Up in America

Jeylan T. Mortimer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

• Acknowledgments 1. Should Adolescents Work? 2. The Youth Development Study 3. Time Allocation and Quality of Work 4. The Ecology of Youthwork 5. Precursors of Investment in Work 6. Working and Adolescent Development 7. The Transition to Adulthood 8. Working and Becoming Adult Appendix: Panel Selection Notes References Index

Mortimer…reports here on the findings from her multiyear longitudinal study, which followed the lives of 1000 students from their first year of high school to their mid-twenties… The study does convincingly demonstrate that part-time employment not only supplements a teen’s learning process but also bolsters self-confidence, socialization, time-management skills, career exploration, and responsibility… This book is readable and interesting and will likely serve as the underpinning for research in an array of disciplines.