Additional Reading
If you want to know more about the working class and you want to read one book...
- Michèle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race,
Class, and Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
If you want to read five more, add :
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the
American Right. New York: New Press, 2016. - Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2003. - Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family
in Rural America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. - J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York:
Harper, 2016. - “The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict,” Joan C. Williams and Heather Boushey,
2010, available at
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2010/01/25/7194/the-three-
faces-of-work-family-conflict/.
If you want to know more, add :
- Julie Bettie, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002. - Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett, The Hidden Injuries of Class. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1972. - Naomi Gerstell and Dan Clawson, Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in
Employment Schedules. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2014. - Joseph T. Howell, Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families ,
revised edition with a new Preface and Epilogue. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2017.
Additional Reading