Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working ClassRoutledge, 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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... at least, a working collective which, paradoxically, serves in part to challenge increased globally driven demand for the neoliberal subject. Beginning with my 1985 ethnographic investigation of Freeway High and 2 • Class Reunion.
... at least, a working collective which, paradoxically, serves in part to challenge increased globally driven demand for the neoliberal subject. Beginning with my 1985 ethnographic investigation of Freeway High and 2 • Class Reunion.
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... collective consciousness within a then radically changing economic and social context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982). I suggest in this volume that young women exhibit what I call a "glimmer of critique" regarding traditional gender roles ...
... collective consciousness within a then radically changing economic and social context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982). I suggest in this volume that young women exhibit what I call a "glimmer of critique" regarding traditional gender roles ...
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... collective category, emerged discursively and materially in relation to black Americans, working off of deeply rooted constructions of "blackness" in the white imagination, a point which Toni Morrison (1992) and others have taken up ...
... collective category, emerged discursively and materially in relation to black Americans, working off of deeply rooted constructions of "blackness" in the white imagination, a point which Toni Morrison (1992) and others have taken up ...
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... collective bargaining agreements (what we can call the "capital-labor accord") are useless — leaving routine production workers without a stable foothold in the new economy: About three decades ago the American economy began to shift ...
... collective bargaining agreements (what we can call the "capital-labor accord") are useless — leaving routine production workers without a stable foothold in the new economy: About three decades ago the American economy began to shift ...
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... collective player in this new economy at all, rendering the sons and daughters of the former industrial proletariat exceedingly vulnerable — perched at the competitive edge of new global economic arrangements. Indeed, the new economy ...
... collective player in this new economy at all, rendering the sons and daughters of the former industrial proletariat exceedingly vulnerable — perched at the competitive edge of new global economic arrangements. Indeed, the new economy ...
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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