Jack Metzgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Metzgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Metzgar |
| SIGNATURE | METZGAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1181-0768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging the Divide
This book attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. The book's author 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 deca…
Bridging the Divide
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…
Health Care in the Steel City
Everybody knows that service jobs have replaced industrial jobs and that a huge part of those service jobs, about 20 million, are in health care—in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home care. But the interrelated process through which that happened and the consequences for labor markets are rarely as palpable as they are in Gabriel Winant's new book on Pittsburgh, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt…
The Professional Middle Class
Right Answer, Wrong Question
Research Article| December 01 2012 Right Answer, Wrong Question Jack Metzgar Jack Metzgar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 41–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1725928 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jack Metzgar; Right Answer, Wrong Question. Labor 1 December 2012; 9 (4): 41–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1725928 Download citation file: Zotero Re…
Are “the Poor” Part of the Working Class or in a Class by Themselves
Drawing on the work of political economist Michael Zweig and sociologist Michele Lamont, as well as other sociological work on working-class life, this reflective essay argues for eliminating “the poor” as a social category but explains why that will be difficult due to both working-class and middle-class ways of construing classes in the United States
Mis(Understanding) the White Working Class
white working-class life in Winchester, Virginia, for the same reason I do believe Tolstoy's portraits of 19th century Russian aristocrats. I have no experience with people anything like those in the great Russian novels, but Tolstoy's characters have the feel and frustrating complexity of real people who resist quick judgments. Conversely, even though I have direct experience of white, workingclass life over the same decades as Bageant's, some o…
U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition
Book Review| December 01 2008 U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below Kim Moody London: Verso, 2007 247 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Jack Metzgar Jack Metzgar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
"Response to "Unions as Social Capital
Is This the Second Coming of the Cio
Striking Steel
Journal Article Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered. By Jack Metzgar. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. x, 264 pp. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 1-56639-738-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56639-739-1.) Get access David Brody David Brody University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675…
"Response to "Unions as Social Capital
Are “the Poor” Part of the Working Class or in a Class by Themselves
Drawing on the work of political economist Michael Zweig and sociologist Michele Lamont, as well as other sociological work on working-class life, this reflective essay argues for eliminating “the poor” as a social category but explains why that will be difficult due to both working-class and middle-class ways of construing classes in the United States
U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition
Book Review| December 01 2008 U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below Kim Moody London: Verso, 2007 247 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Jack Metzgar Jack Metzgar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Striking Steel
Journal Article Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered. By Jack Metzgar. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. x, 264 pp. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 1-56639-738-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56639-739-1.) Get access David Brody David Brody University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675…
"Response to "Unions as Social Capital
Is This the Second Coming of the Cio
Mis(Understanding) the White Working Class
white working-class life in Winchester, Virginia, for the same reason I do believe Tolstoy's portraits of 19th century Russian aristocrats. I have no experience with people anything like those in the great Russian novels, but Tolstoy's characters have the feel and frustrating complexity of real people who resist quick judgments. Conversely, even though I have direct experience of white, workingclass life over the same decades as Bageant's, some o…
U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition
Book Review| December 01 2008 U.s. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below Kim Moody London: Verso, 2007 247 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Jack Metzgar Jack Metzgar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (4): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Are “the Poor” Part of the Working Class or in a Class by Themselves
Drawing on the work of political economist Michael Zweig and sociologist Michele Lamont, as well as other sociological work on working-class life, this reflective essay argues for eliminating “the poor” as a social category but explains why that will be difficult due to both working-class and middle-class ways of construing classes in the United States
Right Answer, Wrong Question
Research Article| December 01 2012 Right Answer, Wrong Question Jack Metzgar Jack Metzgar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 41–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1725928 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jack Metzgar; Right Answer, Wrong Question. Labor 1 December 2012; 9 (4): 41–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1725928 Download citation file: Zotero Re…
The Professional Middle Class
Bridging the Divide
This book attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. The book's author 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 deca…
Bridging the Divide
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…
Health Care in the Steel City
Everybody knows that service jobs have replaced industrial jobs and that a huge part of those service jobs, about 20 million, are in health care—in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home care. But the interrelated process through which that happened and the consequences for labor markets are rarely as palpable as they are in Gabriel Winant's new book on Pittsburgh, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt…
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