Dignity of Working Men Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration

Name: Dignity of Working Men Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
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ISBN: 9780674009929

ISBN-10: 0674009924

ISBN-13: 9780674009929

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michele Lamont

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This study examines the way that working-class men both define themselves and the rest of society. The book analyzes the importance placed on moral standards and the rigid racial and class boundaries drawn by the men in their construction of their own definition of success.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.17" wide x 9.13" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Michï¿½le Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and African and Africa American Studies at Harvard University.



Introduction


Making Sense of Their Worlds


The Questions


The People The Research



American Workers



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



Euphemized Racism


Moral qua Racial


Boundaries


How Morali