Learning to Not Labor: How Working-Class Individuals Construct Middle-Class Identities

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 481-504

  Kaufman, Peter ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b JFT 516 ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0242510099     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2003.tb00542.x     Document Type: Review

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