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...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 chart |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- 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