Blue-collar Aristocrats
Author | : E. E. LeMasters |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1975 |
ISBN-10 | : 0299065545 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780299065546 |
Rating | : 4/5 (546 Downloads) |
Download or read book Blue-collar Aristocrats written by E. E. LeMasters and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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