Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco (Hardcover) Business Management Thus begins the extraordinary life

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue

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Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill

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Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco (Hardcover) Business Management Thus begins the extraordinary lifeOther countries have social safety nets. The U. S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on womenwomen who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over