{"product_id":"limbo-blue-collar-roots-white-collar-dreams-9780471263760","title":"Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alfred Lubrano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Labor - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimbo is a thought-provoking treatise on the lasting consequences of class mobility in America. Drawing on his own story as well as on dozens more from individuals who share his experience, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano sheds light on the predicament of some 13 million Americans: reconciling their blue-collar upbringing with the white-collar world they now inhabit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano came of age in a neighborhood imbued with typical working-class values like the importance of hard work, loyalty to family and community, and a healthy respect for religion. Academically gifted, he attended Columbia, and went on to achieve professional success as a reporter. But he quickly found that the lessons he had absorbed in childhood would not serve him as well as the upper-class gifts of subtlety, diplomacy, and cultural capital-leaving him strangely isolated from both his workplace peers and the world he'd left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnfamiliar with the rules of upper-class life, which serves as the model for corporate culture, the \"Straddlers\" (as Lubrano dubs them) find themselves ill-equipped for that buttoned-down world. Yet they share Lubrano's ambiguity, and their choices frequently challenge the philosophical and moral assumptions of working-class life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining personal stories with the latest thinking from leading experts, Limbo offers a unique blend of deeply felt first-person confessional and sociological study that is both profoundly affecting and rigorously informed. Though it wholly dismisses the widely held notion that class is a dead subject in America, it avoids cynicism and easy judgment, seeking only to provide a glimpse at what lies beneath our social and cultural fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe profiles here show a remarkable consistency of emotion and experience across a diverse demographic that crosses all boundaries of sex, race, and religion. Opening a long-awaited dialogue, Limbo reflects the reality of a unique class struggling with an all-American brand of cultural isolation. There is something for everyone in these honest and eloquent stories of life in our modern meritocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45115398422679,"sku":"9780471263760","price":3141.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780471263760.webp?v=1767270627","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/limbo-blue-collar-roots-white-collar-dreams-9780471263760","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}