Bridging the Divide : Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society

Metzgar, Jack

ISBN 10: 1501760319 / ISBN 13: 9781501760310

Published by ILR Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bridging the Divide : Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501760319
• ISBN 13: 9781501760310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary sources, Metzgar writes as a now middle-class professional with a working-class upbringing, explaining the various ways the two cultures conflict and complement each other, illustrated by his own lived experiences.

Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "standard-issue professionals" with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage.

Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.

About the Author

Jack Metzgar is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is author of Striking Steel.