[lbo-talk] Re: working class?

[Matt]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:36:08AM -0400, Dick Grippon wrote:
> Look. When I studied downsized managers and professionals, they simply 
> didn't see themselves as low-life working class people. Some of them 
> started to get a clue--even saying things like, "Gee, maybe this is what 
> unions are for...." But, in the end, they couldn't bear to be thought of as 
> working class and didn't see themselves as such. That is because it is a 
> shameful thing to be thought of as working class in this country. You ,now 
> that, if youre hands are dirty or your clothes are stained from work, 
> people like Wojtek think you're a racist scumbag. So, you try to avoid 
> appearing to be working class, as best as you can figure out. At the least, 
> you don't say you are.

Hey, check out Barbara Freeborn from the Times class analysis last
spring:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/05/14/national/class/20050515OVERVIEW_VOICES_SLIDESHOW_4.html

That article prompted a friend and I to pick her apart a bit:

http://blogdayafternoon.com/articles/05/05/31/5585285/

They work for $150,000 per year - and they are upper class (according
to Barbara Freeborn)!

Matt     

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