
Author/Contributor(s): | Walkowitz, Daniel J |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
Date: | 03/29/1999 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.