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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

byJefferson Cowie

Jefferson Cowie's Stayin’ Alive investigates the 1970s and the last days of the working class, grounding a large subject in the people and choices that shaped it. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, Stayin’ Alive moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Stayin’ Alive within history and social science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Stayin’ Alive emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

New Press, The

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

468

ISBN

9781595587077