This book is a longitudinal ethnographic study that provides insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades - and what their prospects might be for the future.

Series Editor's Introduction Introduction: In the Shadow of the Mills Part I: 1985 1. A Time of Pain: Young Men at Freeway High 2. A Time of Possibility: Young Women at Freeway High Part II: 2000 3. We Meet the Men Again 4. And the Beat Goes On: Those Men Who Stay 5. Revisiting a Moment of Critique: Freeway Girls All Grown Up 6. Picking up the Pieces and Moving Forward 7. Beyond the Shadow of the Mills: Men, Women, Whiteness and the New Economy Theoretical Coda Epilogue: Methods and Reflections Notes

"Lois Weis captures the complexities and contradictions of life in white working-class families at the turn of the 21st century. In a richly theorized but highly readable text, she illuminates how raced, classed, and gendered identities are shaped by changes in the U.S. political economy. An important book!" -- Jean Anyon, author of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban SchoolReform"Class Reunion vividly illustrates how class is lived and identity is shaped within a context of globalization and neoliberalism. Lois Weis offers significant insights into the importance of class at a time when so much work is diminishing its relevance to contemporary understandings of the present social and political conjuncture." -- Valerie Walkerdine, author of Growing Up Girl:Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class