Blue-collar world : studies of the American worker /
Articles on the sociological aspects of problems of manual workers in the USA - their family, community environment, health. Need to acquire proper skills.
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice-Hall
[1964]
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| Series: | Prentice-Hall industrial relations and personnel series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / William Gomberg
- Part I. Working Class : New and Old
- The "New" Working Class / S.M. Miller 2
- The American Lower Classes : A Typological Approach / S.M. Miller 9
- The Working-Class Subculture : A New View / S.M. Miller and Frank Riessman 24
- Persistence and Change in Working-Class Life Style / Gerald Handel and Lee Rainwater 36
- The Behavior and Values of Skilled Workers / Richard F. Hamilton 42
- Part II. Parent and Provider
- Middle-Class Misconceptions About Lower-Class Families / Hyman Rodman 59
- Changing Family Roles in the Working Class / Lee Rainwater and Gerald Handel 70
- Marketing and the Working-Class Family / James M. Patterson 76
- Wife of the "Happy Worker" / Patricia Cayo Sexton 81
- Family Reactions to the Father's Job / William G. Dyer 86
- Marital Strain in the Blue-Collar Family / Nathan Hurvitz 92
- The Problems of Blue-Collar Consumers / David Caplovitz 110
- Part III. Working-Class Adolescent
- The Outlook of Working-Class Youth / S.M. Miller 122
- Kent Revisited : Blue-Collar Aspirations and Achievements / J. Kenneth Morland 134
- The Hopes of Negro Workers for Their Children / Theodore V. Purcell 144
- Careers as Concerns of Blue-Collar Girls / Ethelyn Davis 154
- The Uncommitted Adolescent : Candidate for Gang Socialization / Larry Karacki and Jackson Toby 165
- An Ideology of School Withdrawal / Edgar Z. Friedenberg 176
- Work and the Teen-Age Blue-Collarite / H. Kirk Dansereau 183
- Part IV. The Community
- Social Structure, Social Class, and Participation in Primary Relationships / Alan F. Blum 195
- The Blue-Collar Joiner / Murray Hausknecht 207
- Blue-Collar Workers as City and Suburban Residents : Effects on Union Membership / William Spinrad 215
- Indigenous Leadership in Two Lower-Class Neighborhood Organizations / F.R. Cousens 225
- Sources and Consequences of Working-Class Consciousness / John C. Leggett 235
- Resident Response to Urban Rehabilitation in a Negro Working- Class Neighborhood / Morton Rubin 247
- Resignation, Industrialization, and the Problem of Social Change : A Case History of a Coal-Mining Community / Herman R. Lantz 258
- The Southern Appalachian Migrant : Country Boy Turned Blue-Collarite / William E. Powles 270
- Acculturation and Negro Blue-Collar Workers / Rose Stamler 282
- Some Thoughts on Reform / S.M. Miller 298
- Part V. Moral Perspectives and Religion
- Moral Perspectives of Blue-Collar Workers / Robert Endleman 308
- Religion and the Blue-Collarite / Glenn M. Vernon 316
- Part VI. Physical Health
- Blue-Collar Attitudes and Information Toward Health and Illness / Daniel Rosenblatt and Edward A. Suchman 324
- Social Class and Becoming "Ill" / William R. Rosengren 333
- The Underutilization of Medical-Care Services by Blue-Collarites / Daniel Rosenblatt and Edward A. Suchman 341
- Illness Behavior of the Working Class : Implications and Recommendations / Irving Kenneth Zola 350
- Part VII. Mental Health
- Psychopathology and Poverty / Lawrence Zelic Freedman 363
- Mental Health in the Worker's World / Claude C. Bowman 371
- Social Class and Schizophrenia : A Ten-Year Follow-Up / Lee L. Bean, Jerome K. Myers, and Max P. Pepper 381
- The Meaning of Work and Mental Illness / Paul N. Geisel 391
- Work and Mental Health / Charlton R. Price and Harry Levinson 397
- Part VIII. Leisure
- The Blue-Collar Worker at Leisure / Milton M. Gordon and Charles H. Anderson 407
- The Mass Media and the Blue-Collar Worker / Leo Bogart 416
- The Working-Class Child of Four and Television / Adeline Gomberg 428
- Lower-Class Negro Television Spectators : The Concept of Pseudo-Jovial Scepticism / Alan F. Blum 429
- Observations on Gambling in a Lower-Class Setting / Irving Kenneth Zola 435
- Obstacles to Blue-Collar Participation in Adult Education / Jack London and Robert Wenkert 445
- Part IX. Unemployment and Retirement
- The Culture of Unemployment : Some Notes on Negro Children / Michael Schwartz and George Henderson 459
- Types of Dropouts : "The Unemployables" / S.M. Miller and Ira E. Harrison 469
- The Adjustment of Older Workers to Job Displacement / Louis A. Ferman and Michael T. Aiken 485
- Plant Relocation and Worker Migration / Luke M. Smith and Irving A. Fowler 491
- Economic Crisis and Expectations of Violence : A Study of Unemployed Negroes / John C. Leggett and David Street 498
- Sociological Perspectives in Unemployment Research / Louis A. Ferman 504
- Further Thoughts on Reform / S.M. Miller 515
- The Meaning of Work and Adjustment to Retirement / Herman J. Loether 517
- Part X. Trends and Prospects
- Domestic Service and the Negro / David Chaplin 527
- Manual Workers as Small Businessmen / Kurt B. Mayer and Sidney Goldstein 537
- Former Blue-Collarites in Small Business / Ivar Berg and David Rogers 550
- The Blue-Collarite Abandoned in the Big City / Thomas F. Hoult and Albert J. Mayer 567
- The Future of Toil / Ronald C. Gross 573
- The Lower Classes and the Negroes : Implications for Intellectuals / Hyman Rodman 579
- Appendix : The Identification of "Lower-Class" Families in an Urban Community / Howard E. Freeman and Camille Lambert, Jr. 584.