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Pricelessness, and the Price, of College in America - Caitlin Zaloom, Indebted: How Middle Class Families Make College Work at All Cost (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 267 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Nina Bandelj*
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, California, USA [[email protected]]
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© European Journal of Sociology 2021

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