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Author Weis, Lois

Title Class reunion : the remaking of the American white working class / Lois Weis
Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)
Series The critical social thought series
Critical social thought.
Contents I: 1985 -- A time of pain: young men at Freeway High -- A time of possibility: young women at Freeway High -- II: 2000 -- We meet the men again -- And the beat goes on: those men who stay -- Revisiting a "moment of critique": freeway girls all grown up -- Pinking up the pieces and moving forward -- Beyond the shadow of the mills: men, women, whiteness, and the new economy -- Theoretical coda -- Methods and reflections
Summary This book 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Working class white people -- United States -- Economic conditions
Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions
Working class -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
Social classes -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social classes
Working class
Working class white people -- Economic conditions
Working class white people -- Social conditions
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Longitudinal studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203684117
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9781135932985
9786610171170
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1280171170
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