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Lubrano, Alfred. Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 300p. index. Wiley, $27.95 (0-471-26376-1). 305.553.
This country always celebrates the idea that there is enormous opportunity here to move up from one's station in life, to achieve greatness from the most humble of roots. But for those who are the first from a traditionally blue-collar family to enter college and move into the white-collar workplace, there is a darker side to success when they find themselves alienated from both their own family and their strange new middle-class world. Lubrano, himself an ...
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