Introduction: Making Sense of Their Worlds

The Questions

The People

The Research

I. American Workers

1. The World in Moral Order

"Disciplined Selves": Survival, Work Ethic, and Responsibility

Providing for and Protecting the Family

Straightforwardness and Personal Integrity

Salvation from Pollution: Religion and Traditional Morality

Caring Selves: Black Conceptions of Solidarity and Altruism

The Policing of Moral Boundaries

2. Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries

How Morality Defines Racism

Whites on Blacks

Blacks on Whites

Immigration

The Policing of Racial Boundaries

3. Assessing"People Above" and"People Below"

Morality and Class Relations

"People Above"

"People Below"

The Policing of Class Boundaries

II. The United States Compared

4. Workers Compared

Profile of French Workers

Profile of North African Immigrants

Working Class Morality

The Policing of Moral Boundaries Compared

5. Racism Compared

French Workers on Muslims

French Workers' Antiracism: Egalitarianism and Solidarity

North African Responses

The Policing of Racial Boundaries Compared

6. Class Boundaries Compared

Class Boundaries in a Dying Class Struggle

Workers on"People Above"

Solidarity à la française: Against"Exclusion"

The Policing of Class Boundaries Compared

Conclusion: Toward a New Agenda

Appendix A: Methods and Analysis

Appendix B: The Context of the Interview: Economic Insecurity, Globalization, and Places

Appendix C: Interviewees

Notes

References

Index