Toward a re-thinking of class as nested in race and gender: Tracking the white working class in the final quarter of the twentieth century

doi:10.4324/9780203935002-31

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Toward a re-thinking of class as nested in race and gender: Tracking the white working class in the final quarter of the twentieth century

ABSTRACT

In 2001, Seth is Head of Maintenance at Freeway High; his wife is a secretary. Judy is a radiologic technician, married to a non-union construction worker. Both Seth and Judy hoped to leave Freeway when they were in high school. Neither they nor their spouses, also from Freeway, left the area.