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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page xii
... engaged scholarship can and should go on. While the complex reality of class is the primary focus of attention for We|is, as she so clearly recognized in her earlier book, classed actors are always sexed and raced as well. One of the ...
... engaged scholarship can and should go on. While the complex reality of class is the primary focus of attention for We|is, as she so clearly recognized in her earlier book, classed actors are always sexed and raced as well. One of the ...
Page xvi
... engaged the broader literature on white working-class men and women. Michelle and Some also read a draft of the ... engage the world can only serve to make it a better place. You have my respect and my profound thanks. Lois Weis ...
... engaged the broader literature on white working-class men and women. Michelle and Some also read a draft of the ... engage the world can only serve to make it a better place. You have my respect and my profound thanks. Lois Weis ...
Page 4
... engaged in by, and simultaneously encircle, men, women, and children on a daily basis. Under this formulation, class is "lived as an identity designation and not simply as an economic relation to the means of production" (Walkerdine et ...
... engaged in by, and simultaneously encircle, men, women, and children on a daily basis. Under this formulation, class is "lived as an identity designation and not simply as an economic relation to the means of production" (Walkerdine et ...
Page 6
... engaged in the ongoing process of reshaping a new white working class as a distinct class fraction, one distanced in key ways from other parts of what might be considered a broader working class. This does not mean that there are no ...
... engaged in the ongoing process of reshaping a new white working class as a distinct class fraction, one distanced in key ways from other parts of what might be considered a broader working class. This does not mean that there are no ...
Page 24
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abuse African Americans Angela McRobbie Arabians boys Carla Chapter class fraction Class Reunion Clint coded collective constructed context critique Deltasonic divorce domestic earned embedded enables engage ethnographic family wage father former industrial proletariat Freeway girls Freeway High Freeway women friends gender global economy go to college gonna guys habitus hegemonic masculinity high school home/family husband identity individuals interviewed Judy kids labor power Learning to Labour lives LoiS Lorna marriage married mean Michael Apple mother move neoliberalism parents Paul Willis percent position race racial border racism reinterviewed relation relationship school knowledge settled sexism sexuality social class space studies suggest Suzanne talk tariat teacher teenage things tion wage labor Weis white male white working class white working-class fraction white working-class male white working-class women Willis workers working-class white Yeah Yemenites young women youth