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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
Nina Bandelj*
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University of California, Irvine, California, USA [nbandelj@uci.edu]
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , December 2020 , pp. 561 - 566
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