Bridging the divide : working-class culture in a middle-class society

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Bridging the divide : working-class culture in a middle-class society

Jack Metzgar

Cornell University Press, 2021

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Index: p. 225-229

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In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary sources, Metzgar writes as a now middle-class professional with a working-class upbringing, explaining the various ways the two cultures conflict and complement each other, illustrated by his own lived experiences. Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "standard-issue professionals" with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage. Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.

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Introduction: Achieving Mediocrity Part I: NOSTALGIA FOR THE THIRTY-YEAR CENTURY OF THE COMMON 1. What Was Glorious about the Glorious Thirty? 2. The Rise of Professional Middle-Class Labor 3. Working-Class Agency in Place 4. "At Least We Ought to Be Able To" Part II: FREE WAGE LABOR AND THE CULTURES OF CLASS 5. There Is a Genuine Working-Class Culture 6. Categorical Differences in Class Cultures Part III: STRATEGIES AND ASPECTS OF WORKING-CLASS CULTURE 7. Ceding Control to Gain Control 8. Taking It & Living in the Moments 9. Working-Class Realism Epilogue: Two Good Class Cultures

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