Kids These Days by Harris, Malcolm -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Introduction Chapter 1: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

1.1 The Pedagogical Mask 1.2 Kid-Shaped Capital 1.3 Risky Child-Rearing 1.4 Helicopter Parents, Vigilante Moms, and Zero Tolerance 1.5 Xtremely Sad Teens 1.6 I Guess This Is Growing Up

Chapter 2: Go to College

2.1 The Average Student 2.2 Anyone Can Afford a Brand-New Diploma 2.3 Why Is College So Expensive? 2.4 Failing Reform School 2.5 When Is a Default Not a Default? 2.6 The Student Debt Time Machine

Chapter 3: Work (Sucks)

3.1 The Changing Character of Work 3.2 Getting Paid 3.3 Polarization 3.4 The Feminization of Labor 3.5 Precarity 3.6 Nice Work If You Can Get It 3.7 Deunionization 3.8 Just Get an Intern 3.9 Owners and Profiteers

Chapter 4: The Feds

4.1 Not-So-Entitled Millennials 4.2 The Juvenilization of Poverty 4.3 Left Behind in the Race to the Top 4.4 Cops 4.5 Pens 4.6 Murderers

Chapter 5: Everybody Is a Star

5.1 Post-Soviet Training 5.2 Trophies and Moneyball 5.3 Big Workers on Campus 5.4 Toddlers in Tiaras 5.5 The Birth of Tweens 5.6 YouTube and Fruity Loops

Chapter 6: Behavior Modification

6.1 Bad Brains 6.2 Pills 6.3 Social Media 6.4 Good Habits 6.5 Porn

Conclusion

Seven Signs of the Bad Future

1. Human Capital Contracts 2. Professionalization of Childhood 3. Climate Privilege 4. Discrimination by Algorithm 5. The Malfunctioning 6. Misogynist Backlash 7. Fully Tracked

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