Yasemin Besen–Cassino

The book, which is based during the 2008 United States presidential election, studied how modern youth viewed politics differently than their ancestors.

Through hundreds of in-depth interviews and telephone surveys, they concluded that voting-aged youth in 2008 saw politics "in the same way that they see consumer goods and brands.

[2] Besen–Cassino published her first ethnographic book through Temple University Press in 2014 titled Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America.

In Consuming Work, she releases her findings of the workforce within an upscale coffee shop who "seek to hire "cool people" with the "right vibe."

[6][7] Besen–Cassino followed her first book up with another titled The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap, which examined the experiences of young women compared to their male counterparts.