Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class

by Lois Weis

Overview

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work.In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part, still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy.

Class Reunion is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study that provides powerful, provocative insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135932978
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/15/2005
Series:	Critical Social Thought
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	550 KB

About the Author

Lois Weis is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of several books including The Unknown City, Beyond Black and White , Off White and Working Class without Work.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction Introduction: In the Shadow of the Mills Part I: 1985 1. A Time of Pain: Young Men at Freeway High 2. A Time of Possibility: Young Women at Freeway High Part II: 2000 3. We Meet the Men Again 4. And the Beat Goes On: Those Men Who Stay 5. Revisiting a Moment of Critique: Freeway Girls All Grown Up 6. Picking up the Pieces and Moving Forward 7. Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: Men, Women, Whiteness and the New Economy Theoretical Coda Epilogue: Methods and Reflections Notes

Editorial Reviews

"Lois Weis captures the complexities and contradictions of life in white working-class families at the turn of the 21st century. In a richly theorized but highly readable text, she illuminates how raced, classed, and gendered identities are shaped by changes in the U.S. political economy. An important book!" — Jean Anyon, author of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform
"Class Reunion vividly illustrates how class is lived and identity is shaped within a context of globalization and neoliberalism. Lois Weis offers significant insights into the importance of class at a time when so much work is diminishing its relevance to contemporary understandings of the present social and political conjuncture." — Valerie Walkerdine, author of Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class

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