Limbo

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Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

By Alfred Lubrano

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Limbo by Alfred Lubrano explores the social and cultural challenges faced by individuals raised in blue-collar families who now navigate white-collar environments. Drawing on his own experiences as the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano combines journalism and personal narrative to reveal the tension between working-class values and the often unspoken norms of the upper class.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in social class dynamics, cultural identity, and workplace sociology, as well as those curious about the intersection of personal history and professional life.

Award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano takes an incisive look at the estimated 65 million Americans who straddle the line between the middle-class communities in which they grew up and the upper-class corporate world they inhabit from nine to five.

Description

A groundbreaking work of journalism that identifies a previously unexamined social concern at the heart of work and life.

Award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies a new cultural phenomenon: the conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values.

The son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account not only with personal experience but also with hundreds of interviews he has conducted with accomplished professionals caught between two worlds—and living in class limbo.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780471714392

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 March 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 256

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Alfred Lubrano Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

ALFRED LUBRANO is a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a contributing editor to GQ, and a commentator for National Public Radio since 1992. He has won six national journalism awards, and has contributed to several magazines and anthologies on writing.