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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... things that set that book apart was its subtle examination of the ways gender differences worked ideologically in the creation of political identities. She revealed that while working-class young men might be integrated into rightist ...
... things that set that book apart was its subtle examination of the ways gender differences worked ideologically in the creation of political identities. She revealed that while working-class young men might be integrated into rightist ...
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... things we all have to do to get by." Thus, as odd as it may seem at first glance, the closing of factories, the loss of industrial jobs, the growth of low-paid service sector jobs, and similar things may have had the paradoxical effect ...
... things we all have to do to get by." Thus, as odd as it may seem at first glance, the closing of factories, the loss of industrial jobs, the growth of low-paid service sector jobs, and similar things may have had the paradoxical effect ...
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... things can or should be written about in "simple" ways. As Terry Eagleton puts it, "Not all wisdom is simple and spontaneous" (Eagleton, 2003, p. 77). But as he goes on to say, "There is something particularly scandalous about radical ...
... things can or should be written about in "simple" ways. As Terry Eagleton puts it, "Not all wisdom is simple and spontaneous" (Eagleton, 2003, p. 77). But as he goes on to say, "There is something particularly scandalous about radical ...
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... things and of communicating information about them continue to drop, profit margins on high-volume, standardized production are thinning because there are few barriers to entry. Modern factories and state-of-the-art machinery can be ...
... things and of communicating information about them continue to drop, profit margins on high-volume, standardized production are thinning because there are few barriers to entry. Modern factories and state-of-the-art machinery can be ...
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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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