The Working Class Majority : America's Best Kept Secret /

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In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zweig, Michael, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class > Political activity.
Working class.
Social conditions
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Travailleurs > Activite politique > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis.
Working class > Political activity > United States.
Working class > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 2001-2009.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 1981-2001.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Economic conditions > 2001-2009.
United States > Economic conditions > 1981-2001.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The class structure of the United States
  • What we think about when we think about class
  • Why is class important?
  • Looking at "the underclass"
  • Looking at values, family and otherwise
  • The working class and power
  • Power and globalization
  • Power and the government
  • Into the millennium.

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