Class Reunion

The Remaking of the American White Working Class

By: Lois Weis

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Paperback | 15 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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234 Pages

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Lois Weis first visited the town of 'Freeway' in her 1990 book, W orking Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-Industrializing Economy . In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion . This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy. Their town has been largely gutted as companies have left for cheaper labor and resources, leaving many with few options. Two introductory chapters are largely based on the earlier ethnography and introduce new readers to the individuals in their student days while the rest of the book is new material discussing the lives of the white, working-class people of Freeway today. Weis' distinctive ethnographic style uses generous quotations and extended conversations with her subjects in order to bring them fully to life. Class Reunion is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study of both men and women and it provides fascinating insights into how their lives have changed over the last two decades and what their prospects might be for the future.

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"Lois Weis captures the complexities and contradictions of life in white working-class families at the turn of the 21st century. In a richly theorized but highly readable text, she illuminates how raced, classed, and gendered identities are shaped by changes in the U.S. political economy. An important book!" -- Jean Anyon, author of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban SchoolReform
"Class Reunion vividly illustrates how class is lived and identity is shaped within a context of globalization and neoliberalism. Lois Weis offers significant insights into the importance of class at a time when so much work is diminishing its relevance to contemporary understandings of the present social and political conjuncture." -- Valerie Walkerdine, author of Growing Up Girl:Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class

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