Bridging the Divide : : Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society / / Jack Metzgar.
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 var...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 chart |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Achieving Mediocrity -- Part I NOSTALGIA FOR THE THIRTY-YEAR CENTURY OF THE COMMON -- 1. What Was Glorious about the Glorious Thirty? -- 2. The Rise of Professional Middle-Class Labor -- 3. Working-Class Agency in Place -- 4. “At Least We Ought to Be Able To” -- Part II FREE WAGE LABOR AND THE CULTURES OF CLASS -- 5. There Is a Genuine Working-Class Culture -- 6. Categorical Differences in Class Cultures -- Part III STRATEGIES AND ASPECTS OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE -- 7. Ceding Control to Gain Control -- 8. Taking It and Living in the Moments -- 9. Working-Class Realism -- Epilogue: Two Good Class Cultures -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501760334 9783110739084 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501760334?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jack Metzgar. |