Classism: Oppression Based on Class

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Calagione, John, Doris Francis, and Daniel Nugent, eds.  Workers' Expressions: Beyond Accommodation and Resistance.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
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Dyos, H. J.  Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History.  Eds. David Cannadine and David Reeder.  Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Fine, Michelle and Lois Weis.  The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

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Gutman, Herbert George.  Power & Culture: Essays on the American Working Class.  Edited by Ira Berlin.  New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1987.

Heath, Shirley Brice.  Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms.  Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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Karen, David.  "The Politics of Class, Race, and Gender: Access to Higher Education in the United States, 1960-1986."  American Journal of Education (February 1991): 208-233.
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MacLeod, Jay.  Aint No Makin It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987.
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Oakes, Jeannie.  Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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Payne, Ruby K.  A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty.  Cheryl A. Evans, illustrator.  Rev. ed.  Baytown, TX: RFT Pub., 1995.

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Rubin, Lillian B.  Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-class Family.  New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Ryan, William.  Blaming the Victim.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.

Sennett, Richard and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden Injuries of Class.  New York: Knopf/Vintage Books, 1972.  New York: Norton, 1993.
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Weis, Lois and Michelle Fine, eds. Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Weis, Lois.  Working Class without Work: High School Students in a De-industrializing Economy.  New York: Routledge, 1990.
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Zweig, Michael.  The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.