Class reunion : the remaking of the American white working class /

Class reunion : the remaking of the American white working class / Lois Weis.

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This book is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study that provides powerful, provocative insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Weis, Lois
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Critical social thought.
Subjects:
Working class white people > United States > Economic conditions.
Working class white people > United States > Social conditions.
Working class > United States > Longitudinal studies.
Social classes > United States.
Social classes.
Working class.
Working class white people > Economic conditions.
Working class white people > Social conditions.
United States.
Longitudinal studies.
Table of Contents:
  • I: 1985
  • A time of pain: young men at Freeway High
  • A time of possibility: young women at Freeway High
  • II: 2000
  • We meet the men again
  • And the beat goes on: those men who stay
  • Revisiting a "moment of critique": freeway girls all grown up
  • Pinking up the pieces and moving forward
  • Beyond the shadow of the mills: men, women, whiteness, and the new economy
  • Theoretical coda
  • Methods and reflections.

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