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Downwardly mobile women--defined as women whose socioeconomic status fell over the course of their lives--were more likely to adopt detrimental behaviors than upwardly mobile women, the study also found.
Socioeconomic status linked to health by Late, Michele / The Nation's Health
However, it seems as though this is the direction a significant swath of the population wants to be going, as in, cheerfully downwardly mobile.
Credit crunch? Pffft! Pass the Dairy Milk by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Contributors from labor studies and other social sciences look at such aspects as the worldwide class struggle, undocumented workers and the US informal economy, the pedagogy of oppression, and class for a downwardly mobile generation.
More unequal; aspects of class in the United States by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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