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Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia
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Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia by Bennett M. Berger is a landmark sociological inquiry into the lived realities of industrial workers transplanted from urban centers to the postwar suburban frontier. Triggered by the 1955 relocation of Ford’s Richmond, California, assembly plant to Milpitas in the Santa Clara Valley, Berger set out to explore whether better-paid assembly line families would absorb the styles, aspirations, and status practices then associated with ...