Blue-collar world

The blue-collar worker-what is his spe cial style of life? How is he different from others in the community? How does he see himself as a citizen and a member of the community? What are his moral values and his religious con victions? What are his fears, his expecta tions? In short, who is he?

Growing out of the conviction of the editors concerning the need for a defini tive portrait of America's blue-collarites, this unique volume represents the first close-up of an important segment of the population. The volume includes studies from many disciplines, and ranges widely over pre-8 AM and post-5 PM areas of working-class life. It focuses especially on the working-class family, the com munity, mental and physical health, mi gration, unemployment, poverty, leisure, and trends and prospects.

This book embodies timely material else where widely scattered, and it offers pro fessional and lay readers alike-those in volved in sociology, psychology, and psychiatry as well as personnel work, social work, public health work, and public administration-the most up-to date thinking by leaders in the fields of industrial social research.

The broad span of its coverage is matched only by the boldness with which the topic is approached. In their preface, the editors said: "We have urged our authors to sin bravely and, given the choice between scholarly ster ility and dangerous speculation, we have indicated our preference for imaginative daring."
Including seven reprints and fifty-four new essays, this book offers an unique picture of the American laboring class, and illuminates much that has hereto fore been unclear. A behavioral science study that is presented in a highly read able and provocative manner, Blue Collar World is an important contribution to the literature of the field.