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Bridging the divide : working-class culture in a middle-class society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Metzgar, Jack (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Working class > Social aspects > United States.
Class consciousness > United States.
Working class > United States > Social conditions.
Middle class > Social aspects > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: achieving mediocrity
  • What was glorious about the glorious 30?
  • The rise of professional middle-class labor
  • Working-class agency in place
  • "At least we ought to be able to"
  • There is a genuine working-class culture
  • Categorical differences in class cultures
  • Ceding control to gain control
  • Taking it and living in the moments
  • Working-class realism
  • Epilogue: two good class cultures.