Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class

by Weis,Lois

• ISBN13: 9780415949071
• ISBN10: 0415949076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 forClass 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 Reunionis 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.

Author Biography

Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: In the Shadow of the Mills	1	(22)
Part I 1985
A Time of Pain: Young Men at Freeway High	23	(28)
A Time of Possibility: Young Women at Freeway High	51	(22)
Part II 2000
We Meet the Men Again	73	(14)
And the Beat Goes On: Those Men Who Stay	87	(26)
Revisiting a ``Moment of Critique'': Freeway Girls All Grown Up	113	(30)
Picking Up the Pieces and Moving Forward	143	(24)
Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: Men, Women, Whiteness, and the New Economy	167	(12)
Theoretical Coda	179	(6)
Epilogue: Methods and Reflections	185	(8)
Notes	193	(8)
References	201	(10)
Index	211