Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working ClassNoted 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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... 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.
... 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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... my original volume, captures the complex relations among secondary schooling, human agency, and the formation of collective consciousness within a then radically changing economic and social context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982).
... my original volume, captures the complex relations among secondary schooling, human agency, and the formation of collective consciousness within a then radically changing economic and social context (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982).
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Working-class whites, both individually and as a designated and simultaneously lived collective category, emerged discursively and materially in relation to black Americans, working off of deeply rooted constructions of "blackness" in ...
Working-class whites, both individually and as a designated and simultaneously lived collective category, emerged discursively and materially in relation to black Americans, working off of deeply rooted constructions of "blackness" in ...
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... most of whom will work for a fraction of what the American, British, or Australian worker (even nonunionized worker) demands. Given this situation, the old collective bargaining agreements (what we can call the "capital-labor ...
... most of whom will work for a fraction of what the American, British, or Australian worker (even nonunionized worker) demands. Given this situation, the old collective bargaining agreements (what we can call the "capital-labor ...
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The old working class, tied to an industrial economy under which plants are expensive to build, maintain, and move, is not a collective player in this new economy at all, rendering the sons and daughters of the former industrial ...
The old working class, tied to an industrial economy under which plants are expensive to build, maintain, and move, is not a collective player in this new economy at all, rendering the sons and daughters of the former industrial ...
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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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| Title | Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class Critical Social Thought |
| Author | Lois Weis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1135932972, 9781135932978 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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