Fun fact: I graduated from the same high school as JD Vance. For the record, Middletown is not in Appalachia. He is 6 years younger than me so we did not overlap. We probably had the same teachers though. Middletown is akin to Gary, Indiana. Mostly former steel mill town (there is still an AK Steel plant but smaller now), losing population, working class, racially segregated.

So thrilled to receive my copy of @SarahDamaske’s The Tolls of Uncertainty. I had the privilege of reading drafts of this book and I whole heartedly recommend it for family, inequality, labor, and gender classes. @PrincetonUPress #AcademicTwitter #soctwitter 1/7 Damaske’s book shows how the experience of unemployment, including the job loss, its consequences, the search for new work, and subsequent employment, are shaped by gender & class. As a consequence, gender & class inequalities are exacerbated by the unemployment process. 2/7