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Author Metzgar, Jack, author.

Title Bridging the divide : working-class culture in a middle-class society / Jack Metzgar
Published Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: achieving mediocrity -- What was glorious about the glorious 30? -- The rise of professional middle-class labor -- Working-class agency in place -- "At least we ought to be able to" -- There is a genuine working-class culture -- Categorical differences in class cultures -- Ceding control to gain control -- Taking it and living in the moments -- Working-class realism -- Epilogue: two good class cultures
Summary "An interpretation of the differences between working-class and professional-middle-class cultures in the U.S. since World War II, exploring how these class cultures both conflict with and complement each other"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2021)
Subject Working class -- Social aspects -- United States
Class consciousness -- United States
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
Middle class -- Social aspects -- United States
Electronic books.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
Electronic books
Class consciousness
Working class -- Social aspects
Working class -- Social conditions
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021005648
ISBN 9781501760327
1501760327
9781501760334
1501760335