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In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.
This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers.
In Lessing's family home, Mrs Mitchell, a white woman from a 'frightful level of poverty' who 'always smelled of spirits' was employed to 'help' her mother with daily tasks.101 Lessing knew that Mrs Mitchell 'must have been desperate' ...
The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers in any particular place—even in the workplace.
In this important new volume, leading sociologists systematically examine how social class operates in the United States today. Social Class argues against the view that we are becoming a classless society.
This is a significant contribution to social theory, an argument certain to be widely considered, debated, and tested.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger “An intellectually captivating book on a topic ...
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I mean he puts his kettle on , on the stove of a morning , so they knock it off , don't they , you know , tek all his water out , put sand in , all this kind of thing ( ... ) if he cum to the gaffer , ' Somebody's knocked me water over ...
Harold Preece, “The South Stirs: Brothers in the Union,” The Crisis, October 1941, 318 (first two quotes); Preece, “The South Stirs: The Pulpit and the New South,” The Crisis, December 1941, 388—89 (final three quotes). 19.