Class Lives
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Author | : Chuck Collins |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0801454522 |
Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle class, and the owning class—and every place in between—the contributors describe their class journeys in narrative form, recounting one or two key stories that illustrate their growing awareness of class and their place, changing or stable, within the class system.The stories in Class Lives are both gripping and moving. One contributor grows up in hunger and as an adult becomes an advocate for the poor and homeless. Another acknowledges the truth that her working-class father's achievements afforded her and the rest of the family access to people with power. A gifted child from a working-class home soon understands that intelligence is a commodity but finds his background incompatible with his aspirations and so attempts to divide his life into separate worlds.Together, these essays form a powerful narrative about the experience of class and the importance of learning about classism, class cultures, and the intersections of class, race, and gender. Class Lives will be a helpful resource for students, teachers, sociologists, diversity trainers, activists, and a general audience. It will leave readers with an appreciation of the poignancy and power of class and the journeys that Americans grapple with on a daily basis.
Author | : James Roberson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113469282X |
This ethnographic study examines the lives of Japanese workers in small firms and analysis their experiences of working life, leisure and education. This unique case study of the Shintani Metals Company illustrates the ways in which employees lives extend beyond their work. Japanese Working Class Lives provides a valuable alternative view of working life outside the large corporations. Roberson demonstrates that the Japanese working class is more diverse than Western stereotypes of be-suited salary-men would suggest.
Author | : Hill Gates |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501719920 |
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan’s history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan’s three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.
Author | : Keith Laybourn |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526100118 |
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley. It focuses upon trade unionism, the co-operative movement, the rise and fall of the Labour Party, and working-class lives, comparing British labour movements with those in Germany and examining the social and political labour activities of the Lansburys. There is, indeed, some important work connected with the cultural developments of the British labour movement, most obviously in the essay written by Matthew Worley on communism and Punk Rock.
Author | : Rebecca Ball |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 3031550846 |
Author | : Loren Pope |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1101221348 |
Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.
Author | : Annette Lareau |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520271424 |
This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it frankly engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.
Author | : Hill Gates |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501719912 |
No detailed description available for "Chinese Working-Class Lives".
Author | : Iona Burnell Reilly |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2022-12-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1801170592 |
A collection of autoethnographies written by academics who self-define as being from a working class heritage. Each one is an account of their lives, their experiences, and their journeys into becoming a higher education professional, in an industry still steeped in elitism.
Author | : Pat Barker |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307472442 |
In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.