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

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.

List of contents

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

References

About the author

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