Limbo by Alfred Lubrano
Title: Limbo – Blue-Collar Roots, White-collar dreams
Genre: Non Fiction
Author: Alfred Lubrano
A groundbreaking work of narrative non-fiction. The limbo existence of people raised in blue-collar families, living white-collar lives. Large Hardcover, Published by John Wiley & Sons 2004. Very good condition.
It's approach is threefold: first, the personal story of the author himself, a working class kid from Brooklyn who crossed over to the middle class after attaining an Ivy League education; second, a distillation of thought about class and mobility from leading experts; and finally, and most importantly, the stories of more than 100 interviewees, all "Straddlers" struggling with the duality that exists in their workplace, their hearts and their minds.
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