Working Class Without Work: High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy

This book is an examination of the identity-formation process among white working-class youth in the context of the de-industrialization of the American economy. For present purposes, "identity" can be defined as a sense of self in relation to others. Identity formation refers, therefore, to the processes through which people, either individually or collectively, come to see themselves in relation to others in particular ways. In this volume I explore these processes among white working-class male and female high school students in Freeway-a city located in the northeastern "rust belt" of the United States.