Bridging the Divide (eBook)

Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society

Jack Metzgar (Autor)

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2021
240 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6032-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Jack Metzgar is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is author of Striking Steel.

Inhalt

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 & Living in the Moments
9. Working-Class Realism
Epilogue: Two Good Class Cultures

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 chart
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: the culture of the professional middle class, the rise of professional-middle-class labor, nostalgia and golden-age thinking, working-class realism, Social Class differences
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6032-7 / 1501760327
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6032-7 / 9781501760327