| Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity Contributor(s): Walkowitz, Daniel J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807847585 ISBN-13: 9780807847589 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $45.13 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 Annotation: This study of social work and social workers illuminates the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender in the formation of middle-class identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Social Work |
| Dewey: 305.550 |
| LCCN: 98-19359 |
| Lexile Measure: 1680 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.13" W x 9.23" (1.34 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, middle class is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years. Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walkowitz, Daniel J.: - A labor historian and filmmaker, Daniel J. Walkowitz is director of the Metropolitan Studies Program and professor of history at New York University. |