Working Class : : Challenging Myths About Blue-Collar Labor / / Jeff Torlina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Torlina, Jeff,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 The Meaning of Work --; 2 The Promise of Blue-Collar Labor --; 3 How We Came to Devalue Blue-Collar Work --; 4 Blue-Collar Views on the White-Collar World --; 5 Conceptions of Class Hierarchy --; 6 Occupational Prestige --; 7 Making Sense of Working-Class Attitudes --; 8 False Dichotomies: The Importance of Experiential Knowledge --; 9 Reclaiming the Value of Labor --; 10 Recasting the Image of Blue-Collar Work --; 11 Conclusions and Implications --; Appendix: Methodology and Data --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781588269775; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781588269775
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeff Torlina.

Jeff Torlina challenges the conventional wisdom about the attitudes of blue-collar men toward their work. Torlina highlights the voices of pipe fitters, welders, carpenters, painters, locomotive assemblers, and factory workers to reveal the complexities—and advantages—of working-class life. This book is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system.