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American Working Class Culture: Explorations in American Labor and Social History

By Milton Cantor

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Hardcover:

9780313206115 | Praeger Pub Text, July 1, 1979, cover price $84.00

American Working Class: Prospects for the 1980s

Product Description: The study of continuities and discon-tinuties in American working-class life represents a central concern in the literature on stratification and equality. This book, based on a 1975 Ford Foundation conference and updated to take into account the most recent developments, offers a sobering appraisal of the American working class, revealing the continuing gap between organized and unorganized workers despite the huge increase in the work force; the emergence of subclass structures between factory workers at one end and workers engaged in marginal occupations at the other; and the durability of pluralistic, multiclass politics within this large and amorphous working class...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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Hardcover:

9780878550821 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 1974, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: The study of continuities and discon-tinuties in American working-class life represents a central concern in the literature on stratification and equality.

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9780878555789, titled "The American Working Class: Prospects for the 1980s" | Transaction Pub, March 1, 1979, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The study of continuities and discon-tinuties in American working-class life represents a central concern in the literature on stratification and equality.

America's New Working Class: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in a Biopolical Age

By Kathleen R. Arnold

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Hardcover:

9780271032764 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $51.95

America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue-Collar Property Owners

A look at the working class considers housing, leisure activities, marriage, family life, occupational mobility, politics, religion, ethnicity, and class consciousness

By David Halle

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Hardcover:

9780226313658 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: A look at the working class considers housing, leisure activities, marriage, family life, occupational mobility, politics, religion, ethnicity, and class consciousness

Paperback:

9780226313665, titled "America's Working Man: Work, Home and Politics Among Blue-Collar Property Owners" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1987), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A look at the working class considers housing, leisure activities, marriage, family life, occupational mobility, politics, religion, ethnicity, and class consciousness

America's Working Poor

Product Description: This is a wide-ranging study of the working poor in America - those whose incomes are insufficient to sustain either themselves or their families. It employs a data source based on the 1980 and the 1990 censuses to show how the numbers of such poor may have changed...read more

By Thomas R. Swartz (editor) and Kathleen Mass Weigert

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9780268006488 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is a wide-ranging study of the working poor in America - those whose incomes are insufficient to sustain either themselves or their families.

And the Poor Get Children: Sex, Contraception, and Family Planning in the Working Class

By Lee Rainwater

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Hardcover:

9780313244520 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1984, cover price $57.95

The Aristocracy of Labor; The Position of Skilled Craftsmen in the American Class Structure

Product Description: An analysis of change in the middle levels of the American class structure. Dr Mackenzie's study is designed to test the common assertion in the press and in recent American academic sociology that the line separating the working class from the middle class is becoming increasingly blurred, leading to the embourgeoisement of large numbers of skilled blue-collar workers...read more

By Gavin Mackenzie

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9780521098250 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: An analysis of change in the middle levels of the American class structure.

At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century

By Tom Juravich

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Hardcover:

9781558497245 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9781558497252 | Pap/dgd edition (Univ of Massachusetts Pr, November 30, 2009), cover price $26.95

Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America

A collection of essays examines the conflict between corporations and their employees, and explores ways in which labor unions can protect the rights of workers against the power of big business (view table of contents)

By Steve Fraser (editor) and Joshua B. Freeman (editor)

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9780395866825 | Mariner Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays examines the conflict between corporations and their employees, and explores ways in which labor unions can protect the rights of workers against the power of big business

Blue Collar & Proud of It: The All-in-One Resource for Finding Freedom, Financial Success and Security Outside the Cubicle

Product Description: The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More! Not everyone is suited to a white-collar career or wants to get the four-year degreethat these jobs typically require. But that doesn't mean you have to turn your backon a great salary, exciting work, and a profession that commands respect...read more

By Joe Lamacchia and Bridget Samburg

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9780757307782 | 1 edition (Hci, May 1, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More!

Blue Collar Aristocrats Life Styles at a Working C

A sociological study of the regular patrons of a family-type tavern offers insight into the lifestyles, social interaction and status, ideals, and aspirations of the beer-drinking, pool-shooting blue-collar worker

By E. E. Lemasters

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9780299065546 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 1976, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Neoliberal Pattern of Domination: Capital's Reign in Decline | About this edition: A sociological study of the regular patrons of a family-type tavern offers insight into the lifestyles, social interaction and status, ideals, and aspirations of the beer-drinking, pool-shooting blue-collar worker

Blue-Collar Aristocrats: Life-Styles at a Working-Class Tavern

By E. E. Lemasters

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9780299065508 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, July 1, 1975, cover price $20.95 | also contains Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family | About this edition: A sociological study of the regular patrons of a family-type tavern offers insight into the lifestyles, social interaction and status, ideals, and aspirations of the beer-drinking, pool-shooting blue-collar worker

Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works

By Rick Santorum

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Hardcover:

9781621572398 | Regnery Pub, April 28, 2014, cover price $27.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482997460 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 28, 2014), cover price $29.95

Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works, Library Edition

Product Description: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.]

By Mike Chamberlain (narrator) and Rick Santorum

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9781482997446 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 28, 2014), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.

The Breaking of the American Social Compact

Product Description: The Breaking of the American Social Compact is a landmark volume from two of our most perceptive social critics. Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward address the tumultuous politics of the past three decades that have culminated in an all-out assault on the American social compact...read more

By Frances Fox Piven

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9781565843912 | New Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The Breaking of the American Social Compact is a landmark volume from two of our most perceptive social critics.

Paperback:

9781565844766 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Breaking of the American Social Compact is a landmark volume from two of our most perceptive social critics.

Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-tech Era

Product Description: Explaining how the recent U.S. economic crisis, which quickly spread around the world, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism, this book contends that the system will not bounce back and will not return to the normal capitalist boom-and-bust cycle...read more

By Fred Goldstein

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9780895671752 | World View Forum Pub, September 10, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explaining how the recent U.

Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

Product Description: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country...read more

By Kirk A. Foster, Thomas A. Hirschl and Mark Robert Rank

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9780195377910 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9780190467029 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being.

Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families

By Wade Rathke

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9781576758625 | 1 edition (Berrett-Koehler Pub, July 1, 2009), cover price $24.95

City Worker's World in America

By Mary K. Simkhovtch

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Hardcover:

9780405029424 | Ayer Co Pub, September 1, 1971, cover price $19.00

Contested Terrain

Edward's controversial theory about the growing number of supervisory personnel argues that the decline of the individual employer and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies forced the managers to establish more controls over employees

By Richard C. Edwards

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9780465014132 | Basic Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Edward's controversial theory about the growing number of supervisory personnel argues that the decline of the individual employer and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies forced the managers to establish more controls over employees

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Drawing on interviews with former IBM executives, bakers, a former bartender who entered the advertising profession, and many other interesting characters, this exploration of work and the new economy looks at the effects of the changing workplace on a wide range of people. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Richard Sennett

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9780393046786 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Explores the effects of the new capitalism and explains the social and political context for today's personal confusions and offers suggestions on how to reimagine community and individual character

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9780393319873 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Drawing on interviews with former IBM executives, bakers, a former bartender who entered the advertising profession, and many other interesting characters, this exploration of work and the new economy looks at the effects of the changing workplace on a wide range of people.

Coxey's Army; A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894,: A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894

By Donald McMurry

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9780404041458 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1929, cover price $26.45

Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age

By Benjamin F. Alexander

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Hardcover:

9781421416205 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 23, 2015, cover price $50.00

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9781421416212 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 23, 2015, cover price $19.95

Crisis in the Working Class

Product Description: In this classic history and analysis of the successes and failures of modern trade unionism, McDermott provides unorthodox approaches for working-class organization today.

By John McDermott

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Hardcover:

9780896080157 | South End Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this classic history and analysis of the successes and failures of modern trade unionism, McDermott provides unorthodox approaches for working-class organization today.

Paperback:

9780896080140 | South End Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: In this classic history and analysis of the successes and failures of modern trade unionism, McDermott provides unorthodox approaches for working-class organization today.

Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy

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By Vicki Smith

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Hardcover:

9780801437373 | Ilr Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $57.95

Paperback:

9780801488122 | Ilr Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.50

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