Blue-collar aristocrats : life-styles at a working-class tavern
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Blue-collar aristocrats : life-styles at a working-class tavern
University of Wisconsin Press, 1975
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780299065508
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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.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780299065546
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"LeMasters' book is a valuable and popularly written source of information on the attitudes of working class men and women. Highly recommended."--Library Journal
Blue-Collar Aristocrats is a major statement about a group of Americans too little understood and too long ignored by by the country's decision- and policy-makers. Thanks to the work of E. E. LeMasters, we now have a rare and human insight into the lives, feelings, attitudes, and problems of America's blue-collar aristocrats--one that has the potential both to add to our knowledge and to contribute toward solutions to some of our nation's broadest social problems.
"LeMasters has given us a brilliant sketch of what the well-developed unions have created--the average American. He's great."--West Coast Review of Books
"This is not a dry sociogram. The quality of life of these people comes with the smell of smoke and beer, the sounds of boisterous laughter above a blaring juke box and the clicking of the pool balls."--New York Times
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