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Peer reviewedSennett, Richard; Cobb, Jonathan – Social Policy, 1972
Indicates the positive kind of freedom a class society proposes to its people: attempts to outline what redemption, what dreams of eventual freedom is offered to keep men from despair, given the real constraints on freedom and dignity. (Author/RJ)
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Lower Class, Social Bias, Social Class
Sennett, Richard; Cobb, Jonathan – New York Review of Books, 1972
Reports the results of long interviews held by the authors with one hundred Boston working-class families representative of the various white ethnic groups in the population, and conducted for most part in 1970. (JM)
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Economic Factors, Ethnic Groups, Lower Class
Sennett, Richard; Cobb, Jonathan – 1972
The book examines the effect of class barriers on blue collar workers by mirroring occupational/ethnic backgrounds of the white manual-laboring population in the Boston area through urban anthropological observations as well as 150 in-depth interviews conducted in 1969-70. It mainly reflects the experience of middle-aged, third generation American…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Ethnic Studies, Human Dignity, Interviews
