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Class Lives

Stories from across Our Economic Divide

Redigeret af Chuck Collins, Jennifer Ladd, Maynard Seider, Felice Yeskel ...

Serier serie A Class Action Book
Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle class, and the owning class—and every place in between—the contributors describe their class journeys ... Læs mere

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