Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class

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Routledge, 2005 M01 15 - 232 pages
Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part, still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy.

Class Reunion 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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Contents

Young Men at Freeway High
23
Young Women at Freeway High
51
We Meet the Men Again
73
Those Men Who Stay
87
Picking Up the Pieces and Moving Forward
143
Methods and Reflections
185
References
201
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Lois Weis is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of several books including The Unknown City, Beyond Black and White , Off White and Working Class without Work.

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