America's Working Man

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America's Working Man is written by David Halle and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 022622936X (ISBN 10) and 9780226229362 (ISBN 13).

"An unusually deep and wide-ranging study" by a sociologist who spent years listening to and living among workers at a New Jersey chemical plant ( Journal of American Studies). Over a period of six years during the late 1970s, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's industrial heartland—white, male, and mostly Catholic. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America during this era. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers' views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and provides a detailed, in-depth portrait of one community of workers at a time when it was relatively affluent and secure. "Absorbing reading."— Business Week