Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a de-Industrializing Economy

by Lois Weis

2021-01-01 14:43:39

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... Read more
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. Less

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Print pages260
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Publication date October 15, 2013
ISBN9780415902342
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Lois Weis is State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. ...

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