Working Class: Challenging Myths About Blue-Collar Labor
  • 2011/223 pages

Working Class:

Challenging Myths About Blue-Collar Labor

Jeff Torlina
Hardcover: $65.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-756-6
Jeff Torlina challenges the conventional wisdom about the attitudes of blue-collar men toward their work.

Torlina highlights the voices of pipe fitters, welders, carpenters, painters, locomotive assemblers, and factory workers to reveal the complexities—and advantages—of working-class life. This book is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system.

Jeff Torlina, now retired, was assistant professor of sociology at Utah Valley University.