CONTENTS

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Acknowledgments

1. American Exceptionalism

2. Blaming the Victim: Psychological Reductionism in Class Theory

3. Class Divisions and Status Rankings: The Social Psychology of American Stratification

4. Who Is Working Class?

5. Class Images

6. The Decline of Social Class?

7. U.S. and British Workers: Same Consciousness, Different Opportunities

8. Docile Women? Pin Money, Homemaking, and Class Conflict

9. Fear and Loathing? Ethnic Hostility and Working-Class Consciousness

10. Militant Blacks? The Persistent Significance of Class

11. The American Dream

12. Reversing the Focus: Capitalist Strength and Working-Class Consciousness

References

Index