Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (Critical Social Thought)
Lois Weis captures the complexities and contradictions of life in white working-class families at the turn of the 21st century. In a richly theorized but highly readable text, she illuminates how raced, classed, and gendered identities are shaped by changes in the U.S. political economy. An important book!.–Jean Anyon, author ofGhetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School ReformClass Reunionvividly illustrates how class is lived and identity is shaped within a context of globalization and neoliberalism. Lois Weis offers significant insights into the importance of class at a time when so much work is diminishing its relevance to contemporary understandings of the present social and political conjuncture.–Valerie Walkerdine, author ofGrowing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class