Children of the Great Depression: social change in life experience (25th anniversary ed.)

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H.

Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort.

He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s.

Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of his subjects over two generations.

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic study includes a new chapter on the war years entitled, ?Beyond Children of the Great Depression.?