Download or read book In and Out of the Working Class written by Michael Yates and published by Arbeiter Ring Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of autobiographical essays written on the border between fiction and non-fiction, a radical economist considers what it means to live in and through the theories about class that have informed his work and teaching. Yates seeks to bring the complexity and ambiguity of class, racial, and gender identity into focus through his own life. Yates writes of the erosion of self-confidence and the anxiety caused by the everyday fears of working-class families. He speaks honestly of the ambivalence and heartbreak caused by upward economic mobility, while relating in a deeply personal way to the structures of class inequality in American life.