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Working Class : Challenging Myths About Blue-Collar Labor / Jeff Torlina.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (223 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781588269775
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.7/9
LOC classification:
  • HD4901 ǂb T67 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Meaning of Work -- 2 The Promise of Blue-Collar Labor -- 3 How We Came to Devalue Blue-Collar Work -- 4 Blue-Collar Views on the White-Collar World -- 5 Conceptions of Class Hierarchy -- 6 Occupational Prestige -- 7 Making Sense of Working-Class Attitudes -- 8 False Dichotomies: The Importance of Experiential Knowledge -- 9 Reclaiming the Value of Labor -- 10 Recasting the Image of Blue-Collar Work -- 11 Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix: Methodology and Data -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: 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. This book is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Meaning of Work -- 2 The Promise of Blue-Collar Labor -- 3 How We Came to Devalue Blue-Collar Work -- 4 Blue-Collar Views on the White-Collar World -- 5 Conceptions of Class Hierarchy -- 6 Occupational Prestige -- 7 Making Sense of Working-Class Attitudes -- 8 False Dichotomies: The Importance of Experiential Knowledge -- 9 Reclaiming the Value of Labor -- 10 Recasting the Image of Blue-Collar Work -- 11 Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix: Methodology and Data -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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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. This book is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)