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From the Edge of the Ghetto - African Americans and the World of Work

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This book follows a study of 100 low-income African Americans living in a suburb of Detroit and how these individuals experience social categories such as race, class, and gender, and how these impact their understanding of the world of work.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Feeling the End of Industrialism

1 Bringing Myself to the Edge

2 On the Doorstep of Ann Arbor and in the Shadow of Detroit

3 Experiencing the World of Work in a City on the Edge

Part II: Fitting into the Postindustrial World

4 Imagining the Good Job in a City on the Edge

5 The Work Ethic in Principle and in Practice

6 Engaging the Future: Women versus Men

Conclusion: Place and Possibility for Small-City Black Americans

Appendix: Portrait of the Research Participants

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Alford A. Young, Jr., is Arthur F. Thurnau professor of sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on how African Americans construct understandings of themselves and social reality. Young has previously published Are Black Men Doomed? and The Minds of Marginalized Black Men.

Summary

This book follows a study of 100 low-income African Americans living in a suburb of Detroit and how these individuals experience social categories such as race, class, and gender, and how these impact their understanding of the world of work.

Product details

Authors Alford Young Jr., Alford Young, Alford Jr. Young, Jr. Alford a. Young, Alford Young Jr.
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2019
 
EAN 9780742570108
ISBN 978-0-7425-7010-8
No. of pages 204
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Detroit, Ethnic Studies, Michigan, Sociology: work & labour, Black & Asian Studies, Sociology: work and labour, Relating to African American / Black American people

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