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Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity - Tapa blanda

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

 
9780807847589: Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
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ISBN 10: 0807847585 ISBN 13: 9780807847589
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Sinopsis

Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years.

Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.

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Acerca del autor

A labor historian and filmmaker, Daniel J. Walkowitz is director of the Metropolitan Studies Program and professor of history at New York University.

De la contraportada

This study of social work and social workers illuminates the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender in the formation of middle-class identity.

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This study of social work and social workers illuminates the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender in the formation of middle-class identity.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0807847585
ISBN 13 
9780807847589
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
440
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