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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Page ix
... Moving Forward 143 7 Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: 167 Men, Women, Whiteness, and the New Economy Theoretical Coda 179 Epilogue: Methods and Reflections 185 Notes 193 References 201 Index 211 SERIES EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION I recently ...
... Moving Forward 143 7 Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: 167 Men, Women, Whiteness, and the New Economy Theoretical Coda 179 Epilogue: Methods and Reflections 185 Notes 193 References 201 Index 211 SERIES EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION I recently ...
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... moved from one project to another. His respect, coupled with his searing analytical mind, is woven through this manuscript in ways too numerous to count. It has been my privilege to be married to Tereffe for twenty-one years. I could ...
... moved from one project to another. His respect, coupled with his searing analytical mind, is woven through this manuscript in ways too numerous to count. It has been my privilege to be married to Tereffe for twenty-one years. I could ...
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... moves that Michelle Fine and I put forward as signature of our work (Weis & Fine, 2004) — deep work within one group (over a fifteen-year time period in this case); serious relational analyses between and among relevant bordering groups ...
... moves that Michelle Fine and I put forward as signature of our work (Weis & Fine, 2004) — deep work within one group (over a fifteen-year time period in this case); serious relational analyses between and among relevant bordering groups ...
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... move off the space of working class as defined thoroughly in relation to place-bound industries and associated union activity, it is certainly true that large numbers of men and women across race and ethnicity are members of what can be ...
... move off the space of working class as defined thoroughly in relation to place-bound industries and associated union activity, it is certainly true that large numbers of men and women across race and ethnicity are members of what can be ...
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... move, is not a 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 ...
... move, is not a 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 ...
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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