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

by Lois Weis
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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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Book Details

Published
February 28, 1990
Publisher
Routledge
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780415900485

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