Bridging the Divide
Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society
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2021
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6031-0 (ISBN)
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6031-0 (ISBN)
In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary sources, Metzgar writes as a now middle-class professional with a working-class upbringing, explaining the various ways the two cultures conflict and complement each other, illustrated by his own lived experiences.
Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "standard-issue professionals" with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage.
Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.
Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "standard-issue professionals" with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage.
Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.
Jack Metzgar is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is author of Striking Steel.
Introduction: Achieving Mediocrity
Part I: NOSTALGIA FOR THE THIRTY-YEAR CENTURY OF THE COMMON
1. What Was Glorious about the Glorious Thirty?
2. The Rise of Professional Middle-Class Labor
3. Working-Class Agency in Place
4. "At Least We Ought to Be Able To"
Part II: FREE WAGE LABOR AND THE CULTURES OF CLASS
5. There Is a Genuine Working-Class Culture
6. Categorical Differences in Class Cultures
Part III: STRATEGIES AND ASPECTS OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE
7. Ceding Control to Gain Control
8. Taking It & Living in the Moments
9. Working-Class Realism
Epilogue: Two Good Class Cultures
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.09.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Charts |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-6031-9 / 1501760319 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-6031-0 / 9781501760310 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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