Yasemin Besen-Cassino

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Cool Stores Bad Jobs
Sociologist Yasemin Besen-Cassino explores the techniques through which employers attract young, attractive, and middle-class workers for minimum wage, service sector jobs. Using in-depth interviews… Expand
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Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America
Acknowledgments 1 Consuming Work: Introduction to Youth Work in America 2 "Would You Like an Application with Your Coffee?" 3 Fun or Exploitation? The Lived Experience of Suburban Youth Work 4 Pay or… Expand
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The Cost of Being a Girl: Gender Earning Differentials in the Early Labor Markets
The gender wage gap is among the most persistent and durable characteristics of labor markets and women’s lives. Despite differences in focus, almost all studies of the gender wage gap focus on the… Expand
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The Study of Youth Labor: The Shift Toward a Subject-Centered Approach
In recent years, part-time work has emerged as an important area of study in understanding young people's lives. The existing literature on young people's work focuses predominantly on the effects of… Expand
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The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
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Political identity, gender identity or both? The political effects of sexual orientation and gender identity items in survey research
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Book Review: Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins
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Men’s Votes: Effects of Masculine Identity on Political Views
Research II: Interviews and Focus Groups
Race, threat and workplace sexual harassment: The dynamics of harassment in the United States, 1997–2016
Sexual harassment is a persistent problem for women in the workplace. Prior research has explored the effects of sexual harassment on the psychological, physical and economic wellbeing of the… Expand
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