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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... context of the radical transformations we are witnessing all around us. This is quite an achievement. Because of these attributes, this is a book that makes a lasting contribution to all of us who are concerned with what has happened ...
... context of the radical transformations we are witnessing all around us. This is quite an achievement. Because of these attributes, this is a book that makes a lasting contribution to all of us who are concerned with what has happened ...
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... context, they are worthy of our respect. The Spencer Foundation and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo funded portions of the research over the past four years; while not responsible for any aspect ...
... context, they are worthy of our respect. The Spencer Foundation and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo funded portions of the research over the past four years; while not responsible for any aspect ...
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... context, Bill's and Rhonda's stories are not unique, but rather are suggestive of what has happened to a large portion of the white industrial proletariat in America, a proletariat that has been remade and, simultaneously, has re-made ...
... context, Bill's and Rhonda's stories are not unique, but rather are suggestive of what has happened to a large portion of the white industrial proletariat in America, a proletariat that has been remade and, simultaneously, has re-made ...
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... context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982). I suggest in this volume that young women exhibit what I call a "glimmer of critique" regarding traditional gender roles in the white working-class family, and that young men are ripe for New Right ...
... context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982). I suggest in this volume that young women exhibit what I call a "glimmer of critique" regarding traditional gender roles in the white working-class family, and that young men are ripe for New Right ...
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... context, must be addressed here. Dramatic changes in the global economy may be experienced worldwide, but are lived out in particular locations — locations that exhibit and manifest distinct histories in terms of, among other things ...
... context, must be addressed here. Dramatic changes in the global economy may be experienced worldwide, but are lived out in particular locations — locations that exhibit and manifest distinct histories in terms of, among other things ...
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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