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Anthropologist Katherine S. Newman interviewed a wide range of men, women and children who experienced a precipitous fall from middle-class status in the 30 years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s. This text documents their stories.

Table of Contents
Preface

1 American Nightmares
2 Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence
3 Rejected Managers and the Culture of Meritocracy
4 The Downwardly Mobile Family
5 Brotherhoods of the Downwardly Mobile
6 Blue-Collar Workers and the Abandonment of Tradition
7 Middle-Class Women in Trouble
8 Falling from Grace
9 Afterword

Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Falling From Grace Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/03/1999
      ISBN13: 9780520218420, 978-0520218420
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Anthropologist Katherine S. Newman interviewed a wide range of men, women and children who experienced a precipitous fall from middle-class status in the 30 years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s. This text documents their stories.

      Table of Contents
      Preface

      1 American Nightmares
      2 Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence
      3 Rejected Managers and the Culture of Meritocracy
      4 The Downwardly Mobile Family
      5 Brotherhoods of the Downwardly Mobile
      6 Blue-Collar Workers and the Abandonment of Tradition
      7 Middle-Class Women in Trouble
      8 Falling from Grace
      9 Afterword

      Appendix
      Notes
      References
      Index

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