Class Reunion

The Remaking of the American White Working Class
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94908-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Critical Social Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weis, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Introduction Introduction: In the Shadow of the Mills Part I: 1985 1. A Time of Pain: Young Men at Freeway High 2. A Time of Possibility: Young Women at Freeway High Part II: 2000 3. We Meet the Men Again 4. And the Beat Goes On: Those Men Who Stay 5. Revisiting a Moment of Critique: Freeway Girls All Grown Up 6. Picking up the Pieces and Moving Forward 7. Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: Men, Women, Whiteness and the New Economy Theoretical Coda Epilogue: Methods and Reflections Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Lois Weis is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of several books including The Unknown City, Beyond Black and White, Off White and Working Class without Work.