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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The Remaking of the American White Working Class Lois Weis. U JLoSS Reunion Thi s On« 9ND1-N7G-73BP Critical Social Thought Series ed by Michael W. Apple, University.
The Remaking of the American White Working Class Lois Weis. U JLoSS Reunion Thi s On« 9ND1-N7G-73BP Critical Social Thought Series ed by Michael W. Apple, University.
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... Class reunion : the remaking of the American white working class / Lois Wiis. p. cm. — (The critical social thought ... Social conditions. 3. Working class — United States — Longitudinal studies. 4. Social classes — United States. I ...
... Class reunion : the remaking of the American white working class / Lois Wiis. p. cm. — (The critical social thought ... Social conditions. 3. Working class — United States — Longitudinal studies. 4. Social classes — United States. I ...
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... class communities abutting neighborhoods populated by people of color from ... class. I passed by the elementary school and high school I had attended. The high ... social and youth services, no respectable jobs, no alternative forms of ...
... class communities abutting neighborhoods populated by people of color from ... class. I passed by the elementary school and high school I had attended. The high ... social and youth services, no respectable jobs, no alternative forms of ...
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... Class Reunion, Weis returns to the same community and the same people. What she shows is crucial to our understanding of some of the most important social and ideological trends in the nation as a whole. Her picture of what has happened ...
... Class Reunion, Weis returns to the same community and the same people. What she shows is crucial to our understanding of some of the most important social and ideological trends in the nation as a whole. Her picture of what has happened ...
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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