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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1138181234

ISBN13:9781138181236

Release Date:January 2017

Publisher:Routledge

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.98 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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