Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society - Couverture rigide

Metzgar, Jack

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ISBN 10 : 1501760319 ISBN 13 : 9781501760310

Editeur : ILR Press, 2021

Synopsis

In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary sources, Metzgar writes as a now middle-class professional with a working-class upbringing, explaining the various ways the two cultures conflict and complement each other, illustrated by his own lived experiences.

Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "standard-issue professionals" with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage.

Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jack Metzgar is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is author of Striking Steel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ILR Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501760319
• ISBN 13: 9781501760310
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible