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This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out
of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social
positions and subaltern jobs. Presenting a score of household
portraits - urban, suburban, and rural - the authors examine what
it means to 'get by' in France today, considering the material and
symbolic resources that these households can muster, and the
practices that give meaning to their lives. With attention to their
aspirations and disappointments - and their desire to be 'like
everyone else' in a supposedly egalitarian society that nonetheless
gives them little credit for their effort - this book offers a
sociological interpretation of their situations, offering new
insights into what it means to be 'working class' in a 21st-century
post-industrial society. Combining statistical analyses with
ethnographically-based examinations of how changes in the structure
of the employment market relate to plans for upward mobility,
Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France sheds light on the ways in
which class identity - along with all its associated practices,
tastes, and aspirations - has changed since the sociological
classics on the working classes were published over half a century
ago. As such, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests
in the sociology of the family, social class, and the sociology of
work.
This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out
of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social
positions and subaltern jobs. Presenting a score of household
portraits - urban, suburban, and rural - the authors examine what
it means to 'get by' in France today, considering the material and
symbolic resources that these households can muster, and the
practices that give meaning to their lives. With attention to their
aspirations and disappointments - and their desire to be 'like
everyone else' in a supposedly egalitarian society that nonetheless
gives them little credit for their effort - this book offers a
sociological interpretation of their situations, offering new
insights into what it means to be 'working class' in a 21st-century
post-industrial society. Combining statistical analyses with
ethnographically-based examinations of how changes in the structure
of the employment market relate to plans for upward mobility,
Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France sheds light on the ways in
which class identity - along with all its associated practices,
tastes, and aspirations - has changed since the sociological
classics on the working classes were published over half a century
ago. As such, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests
in the sociology of the family, social class, and the sociology of
work.
Baby You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar
culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred
space for its community. Before Stonewall when homosexuals were
still deemed mentally ill, these bars were the only place where
many could have any community at all. Baby You Are My Religion
explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and
political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the
Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that
traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place
there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often
conducted within the bars by staff. Baby You Are My Religion
examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but
also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for
gay and lesbian civil rights. Based on over 100 new primary
interviews.
The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what
one resident called the "Little-Middles" - a social group on the
tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the
1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which
fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This
feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some
residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of
upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds.
This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants,
arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than
of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community
that reigned before.
Baby You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar
culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred
space for its community. Before Stonewall when homosexuals were
still deemed mentally ill, these bars were the only place where
many could have any community at all. Baby You Are My Religion
explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and
political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the
Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that
traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place
there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often
conducted within the bars by staff. Baby You Are My Religion
examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but
also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for
gay and lesbian civil rights. Based on over 100 new primary
interviews.
The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what
one resident called the "Little-Middles" - a social group on the
tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the
1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which
fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This
feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some
residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of
upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds.
This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants,
arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than
of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community
that reigned before.
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