Making of an Ethnic Middle Class

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Making of an Ethnic Middle Class is written by William Toll and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438422253 (ISBN 10) and 9781438422251 (ISBN 13).

The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class explains how European Jews of diverse cultural and social backgrounds coalesced over four generations into a middle-class community. By utilizing numerous oral histories to complement statistical data from public sources such as the federal manuscript censuses and public school enrollment cards, William Toll has succeeded in tracing in minute detail the contours of change. The study focuses particularly on the role of women to demonstrate how dramatic changes in the size and composition of the family and in sex roles, more than changes in the workplace, eroded European traditions.