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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.


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  • 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/.


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  • 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.


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