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Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (Critical Social Thought.)

By Lois Weis

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0415949084, 9780415949088
Open Library ID
OL7497399M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1999935 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
232\230
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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