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- Introduction: Making Sense of Their Worlds
- The Questions
- The People
- The Research
- Introduction: Making Sense of Their Worlds
- 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
- 1. The World in Moral Order
- 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
- 4. Workers Compared
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- 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
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The Dignity of Working Men
Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
Product Details
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$28.00 • £24.95 • €25.95
ISBN 9780674009929
Publication Date: 10/15/2002
408 pages
5-11/16 x 8-7/8 inches
5 tables
Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press
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Awards & Accolades
- 2001 Mattei Dogan Award, Society for Comparative Research
- 2000 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems