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Working class : challenging myths about blue-collar labor /
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. These...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The meaning of work
- The promise of blue-collar labor
- How we came to devalue blue-collar work
- Blue-collar views on the white-collar world
- Conceptions of the class hierarchy
- Occupational prestige
- Making sense of working class attitudes
- False dichotomies
- Reclaiming the value of labor
- Recasting the image of blue-collar work
- Conclusions and implications.