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 decades of historical circumstances, the book challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, the author 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. The book 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.

Bridging (networking) · Class (philosophy) · Complement (music) · Epistemology · Middle class · New class · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type) · Social class · Sociology · Unification · Working class · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Class consciousness · Economics · Social aspects · Social conditions

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  Open Access•Allison L Hurst•American Journal of Cultural…•2022

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