Blue Collar Aristocrats

Life Styles at a Working Class Tavern

Bibliographic Data

ID11099338
AuthorsJoseph R Gusfield (corresponding author), E E Lemasters (University of California San Diego)
Year1976
Volume5
Issue2
Pages200
Publication date1976-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2062992
OpenAlexW2037488860
LanguageEN
Citations received49

LeMasters book is a valuable and popularly written source of information on the attitudes of working class men and women. Highly recommended. Library Journal Blue-Collar Aristocrats is a major statement about a group of Americans too little understood and too long ignored by by the country's decision- and policy-makers. Thanks to the work of E. E. LeMasters, we now have a rare and human insight into the lives, feelings, attitudes, and problems of America's blue-collar aristocrats one that has the potential both to add to our knowledge and to contribute toward solutions to some of our nation's broadest social problems. LeMasters has given us a brilliant sketch of what the well-developed unions have created the average American. He s great. West Coast Review of Books This is not a dry sociogram. The quality of life of these people comes with the smell of smoke and beer, the sounds of boisterous laughter above a blaring juke box and the clicking of the pool balls. New York Times

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