In and Out of the Working Class
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1894037359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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It should be said that Michael Yates's collection is graced by some of the finest writing that you are likely to encounter from someone whose background is primarily in political and economic analysis. -- Steve Early, State of NatureThe beauty is that Yates' historical writing about his own life covers events that he was part of, written so that as a reader, I felt I was there. It is distinguished by his unique, plain-spoken voice shaped by growing up in a working class milieu, where pretensions of one sort or another were likely to earn you a bloody nose, as well as an obvious understanding of how to sustain the reader's attention. Crucially, In and Out of the Working Class never sugarcoats the working class, even as Yates highlights a social
In a series of autobiographical essays written on the border between fiction and non-fiction, a radical economist considers what it means to live in and through the theories about class that have informed his work and teaching. Yates writes of the erosion of self-confidence and the anxiety caused by the everyday fears of working-class families. Yates seeks to bring the complexity and ambiguity of class, racial, and gender identity into focus through his own life. He speaks honestly of the ambivalence and heartbreak caused by upward economic mobility, while relating in a deeply personal way to the structures of class inequality in American life.
Michael D. Yates is an Associate Editor of Monthly Review and a labour educator. . For many years he taught Economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of six previous books, including the recent Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economists Travelogue
Haiku Review J. Edgar Mihelic, MBA In a review, the reader tries to create a sense of the book; the task is to boil down the essence of the work and to summarize and give opinion about the quality of the object in a very subjective manner. I am making a project of finding that essence in the most constrained manner possible. Here, I present you with a haiku review. I hope you like the review and take under consideration a purchase of the work.Nice reflection ofgrowing up blue collar andseeking more meaning.