num_pages: 248
description: Limbo is a thought-provoking treatise on the lasting consequences of class mobility in America. Drawing on his own story as well as on dozens more from individuals who share his experience, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano sheds light on the predicament of some 13 million Americans: reconciling their blue-collar upbringing with the white-collar world they now inhabit.The profiles here show a remarkable consistency of emotion and experience across a diverse demographic that crosses all boundaries of sex, race, and religion. Opening a long-awaited dialogue, Limbo reflects the reality of a unique class struggling with an all-American brand of cultural isolation. There is something for everyone in these honest and eloquent stories of life in our modern meritocracy.
language: English
title: Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
titlecomplete: Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Social Justice, Education, Economics, Psychology, Class, Sociology, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 835
publisher: Wiley