Working Class Without Work
High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2013
260 pages
978-1-136-63679-0 (ISBN)
Description
The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American New Right. Presenting the first sustained ethnographic investigation of white working class youth in the context of deindustrializatin, Weis offers a complex portrait of how these young people produce themselves in a society vastly different from that of their parents and grandparents.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-63679-0 (9781136636790)
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Person
Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Educational Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is also the author of Between Two Worlds (RKP).
Content
1. Introduction 2. Freeway Males 3. Freeway Females 4. Within the School 5. Freeway Teachers 6. Freeway Parents 7. Women and Men: A Social Movement Perspective 8. Whether the Working Class?
