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1.

False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness » Read Now
by Stanley Aronowitz. 474 pgs.

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...The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness With a New Introduction...extremely suggestive for understanding working class consciousness and institutions...against...
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Working Class USA: The Power and the Movement » Read Now
by Gus Hall. 396 pgs.

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A collection of writings on the U.S. working class and the class struggle by a lifelong participant, with new material especially for this volume.
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Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family » Read Now
by Lillian B. Rubin. 272 pgs.

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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class » Read Now
by Mike Davis. 324 pgs.

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...Economy in the History of the US Working Class MIKE DAVIS VERSO London...economy in the history of the U.S. working class. 1. Labor and laboring classes...1. Why the...
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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States » Read Now
by Alice Kessler-Harris. 400 pgs.

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The Re-Education of the American Working Class » Read Now
by Steven H. London, Elvira R. Tarr, Joseph F. Wilson. 294 pgs.

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This work brings together articles and papers by union leaders, activists, social scientists, and educators to provide an overview of the field of worker education. Along with complete coverage of the historical models of worker education, the book examines the most pressing issues confronting...
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This work brings together articles and papers by union leaders, activists, social scientists, and educators to provide an overview of the field of worker education. Along with complete coverage of the historical models of worker education, the book examines the most pressing issues confronting worker educators today. The book's final section presents alternative models of worker education that illustrate a variety of approaches currently being employed. All selections found in this volume represent original contributions not published elsewhere.
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Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood » Read Now
by Maria Kefalas. 203 pgs.

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"Scrubbing behind their refrigerators, manicuring their lawns, reciting the pledge of allegiance in rainy parking lots, the people of Beltway mold their community with precision and grace. Firm in their convictions about what makes up a decent place to live, and fierce in their efforts to protect...
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"Scrubbing behind their refrigerators, manicuring their lawns, reciting the pledge of allegiance in rainy parking lots, the people of Beltway mold their community with precision and grace. Firm in their convictions about what makes up a decent place to live, and fierce in their efforts to protect this place from the forces that threaten it, Beltway's residents have found in Kefalas a sharp-eyed yet sympathetic interpreter of their behavior, their homes, and their dreams. Ethnography rarely penetrates this deeply."--Wendy Griswold, author of "Bearing Witness
"The perspective of working or lower-middle class whites on issues of race and culture is often ignored, misunderstood or treated with contempt by social scientists. Kefalas's perceptive portrayal and penetrating analysis of a white working-class neighborhood in Chicago provides an important and much needed contrast. In this well-written book, Kefalas advances our understanding of the socioeconomic insecurities of ordinary white Americans ina changing,urban world and shows how these insecurities influence their world views and efforts to provide meaning and order in their daily lives."--William Julius Wilson, author of "The Bridge over the Racial Divide
"Not since Jonathan Rieder's "Canarsie has an urban ethnographer presented as nuanced an examination of the defended working-class neighborhood and its inhabitants. Kefalas's meticulous Chicago fieldwork argues that her subjects rise above the old racial order as they fight against crime and other threats. "Working-Class Heroes will provoke endless seminar discussion and debate, and ongoing research. It establishes its author as an important new voice in urbanethnography."--Mitchell Duneier, author of "Sidewalk and "Slim's Table
""Working Class Heroes is an important and original contribution because it demonstrates very convincingly how the stable white lower-middle class defines its identity and
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Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980 » Read Now
by Kenneth D. Durr. 284 pgs.

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In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighbor-hoods, work-places, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by...
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In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighbor-hoods, work-places, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr details the rise of a working-class populism shaped by mistrust of postwar liberalism in the face of urban decline. Exploring the effects of desegregation, deindustrialization, recession, and the rise of urban crime, Durr shows how legitimate economic, social, and political grievances convinced white working-class Baltimoreans that they were threatened more by the actions of liberal policy makers than by the incursions of urban blacks. While acknowledging the parochialism and racial exclusivity of white working-class life, Durr adopts an empathetic view of workers and their institutions. "Behind the Backlash melds ethnic, labor, and political history to paint a rich portrait of urban life--and the sweeping social and economic changes that reshaped America's cities and politics in the late twentieth century.
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Affluent Workers Revisited: Privatism and the Working Class » Read Now
by Fiona Devine. 234 pgs.

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...Revisited Privatism and the Working Class FIONA DEVINE EDINBURGH...2 Privatism and the Working Class 14 3 Geographical...has centred on the demise of the working class as a...
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America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters » Read Now
by Joel Rogers, Ruy Teixeira. 218 pgs.

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Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers tackle a central mystery of twentieth-century electoral politics -- how did the Democratic party lose the vote of the white working class, which today constitutes roughly 55 percent of the electorate? And why do both parties continue to ignore the wants and needs of this...
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Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers tackle a central mystery of twentieth-century electoral politics -- how did the Democratic party lose the vote of the white working class, which today constitutes roughly 55 percent of the electorate? And why do both parties continue to ignore the wants and needs of this critical mass of American voters?
This "forgotten majority" has played a decisive role in federal elections and policy over the past thirty years, but its experience of declining prosperity and party neglect over the last several decades has left its loyalties unstable. Teixeira and Rogers argue that it is time for politicians to realize that this group will shape the nation's political fortunes in 2000 and beyond.
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Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs » Read Now
by Deirdre A. Royster. 226 pgs.

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"Deirdre Royster's moving and engaging study convincingly and uniquely captures racial differences in school to work transition. Her data on and analysis of the differential employment experiences and outcomes of comparable young black and white working class males are very compelling. "Race and the...
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"Deirdre Royster's moving and engaging study convincingly and uniquely captures racial differences in school to work transition. Her data on and analysis of the differential employment experiences and outcomes of comparable young black and white working class males are very compelling. "Race and the Invisible Hand is an important book that will be widely read and cited."--William Julius Wilson, author of "The Bridge Over the Racial Divide "As acute in its analysis as it is rich in ethnographic detail, Royster's captivating study shows in telling detail how inequalities in the securing of good working class jobs are reproduced in the anything-but-colorblind contemporary United States."--David Roediger, author of "Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
"An unflinching look at the experiences of young blue collar job-seekers on both sides of America's color line. This book powerfully demonstrates the hidden workings of racial discrimination today."--Chris Tilly, co- author of "Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America
"Timely and challenging, this book exposes race as the key arbiter of employment outcomes for young black and white men. This beautifully written study is absolutely essential for policy makers, educators and researchers."--Mary Romero, author of "Maid in the USA
"An important study. As policymakers keep trying to improve blacks' employment opportunities with new versions of job training programs, Royster shows how irrelevant such efforts are as long as blacks lack access to essential social contacts."--James E. Rosenbaum, author of "Beyond College for All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half
"A powerful and original empirical account thatpersuasively demonstrates how visible hands invisibly reproduce racial inequality in the blue collar trades. Systematically comparing young black and white men who share the same educational credentials, grades, attendance recor
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A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society » Read Now
by Lawrence B. Glickman. 224 pgs.

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"A Living Wage", the rallying cry of activists, has a revealing history, here documented by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and...
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"A Living Wage", the rallying cry of activists, has a revealing history, here documented by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.
Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves". After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.
First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.
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The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 » Read Now
by Andrew Miles, Mike Savage. 106 pgs.

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Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook:* Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis* Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class...
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Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook:* Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis* Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation* Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed* Shows how class and gender interact in mediating social and political change
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Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia » Read Now
by Elizabeth J. Perry. 253 pgs.

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Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers » Read Now
by James E. Roberson. 230 pgs.

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By examining the lives of workers in a small Japanese factory, this text provides a valuable alternative view of life outside large corporations, in so doing demonstrating the diversity of the Japanese working-class.
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The Social History of Labor in the Middle East » Read Now
by Ellis Jay Goldberg. 236 pgs.

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