The white majority, between poverty and affluence / edited by Louise Kapp Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Louise Kapp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States.

Labor.

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Social conditions.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1960-.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1970]

Contents:

A man and a phenomenon: Introduction, by L. K. Howe. The revolt of the white lower-middle class, by P. Hamill.

A day in the life: Life with Cappelli on $101 a week, by H. Aronson. Blue-collar marriages and families, by M. Komarovsky. Working-class youth: alienation without an image, by W. Simon and J. H. Gagnon. Greasers, dupers and hippies: three responses to the adult world, by S. A. Buff. Why they fight: U.S. combat soldiers in Vietnam, by C. C. Moskos, Jr. How they get away from it all, by G. Williams and J. Parker.

Pride and prejudice: A Black view of the white worker, by J. Boggs. White against white: the enduring ethnic conflict, by A. M. Greeley. The fear of equality, by R. E. Lane. Work life and political attitudes: a study of manual workers, by L. Lipsitz. Labor: the anti-youth establishment, by L. Carliner. The exploitation of women workers, by J. Jordan. Respectable bigotry, by M. Lerner.

Who speaks for the white majority? The politics of change: the Wallace whitelash, by S. Lipset and E. Raab. Workers and liberals: closing the gap, by B. Sexton. Can the American worker be radicalized? By K. Moody. Is there a new Republican majority? By A. Hacker. Sharing the burden of change, by S. M. Miller.

Afterword, by L. K. Howe.

Bibliography (p. [297]-298).

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [297]-298.

ISBN:

0394462513

OCLC:

543057