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Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families Reprint edition

by Joseph T. Howell (Author)

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With 2017 Preface and Epilogue.

In this revealing study of a white working class neighborhood in Washington, D.C., Howell shows us that there is more than one kind of blue collar worker in America today. Hard Living on Clay Street is about two very different blue collar families, the Shackelfords and the Mosebys. They are fiercely independent southern migrants, preoccupied with the problems of day-to-day living, drinking heavily, and often involved in unstable family relationships. Howell moved to Clay Street for a year with his wife and son and became deeply involved with the people, recording their story. As readers, we too become participants in the life of Clay Street, and not just observers, learning what "living on Clay Street" is all about.

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Lyon-Driskell, The Community in Urban Society, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577667414) and Singer, The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of a Street Drug Addict (ISBN 9781577664321).

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0881335266
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978-0881335262
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Waveland Pr Inc
Publication date

December 2, 1990
Language

English
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5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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405 pages
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"Never again will you find yourself easily able to put down the people whose hopes and fears, dreams and disappointments, violences and loves, inhabit this book." --The New Republic

"No soap opera tangles the gold web of life more effectively than these genuine humans do, and not half so fast." --Washington Post

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Waveland Pr Inc; Reprint edition (December 2, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 405 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0881335266
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0881335262
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Mr. Phil

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023

Excellent book .

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022

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A very insightful look into the life of the working class of the period, that were all too often overlooked and stereotyped by those that were fortunate enough to never have experienced the same living situations.

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ReactingtoLit

Still a Worthwhile Read. . .50 Years Later

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2016

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In 1970, Howell moved in to a working class neighborhood in Washington D.C. Living in the Clay Street neighborhood, came to know two families intimately. His retelling of his experiences with the two families makes a thought-provoking account of what it meant to be a working class family in the early 1970s. In the midst of the book, one wonders if things have changed much at all for working class families today. Twenty years after the initial book, Howell reconnected with many of the people he had known, and he shares what has happened to them over the twenty years. The entire book is told with honesty, rich-detail, and real emotions and is still worthy of reading over 50 years later.

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kek5116

REALLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2012

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Bought this book for a class I took on campus and did not want to pay the extreme price on campus. Found it on here for a 1/3 of the cost and it was the extact same book it was perfect. Great ship time and wonderful customer service. I also think this book is a very inspring book for ones that are interested in what happened back in the blue collar days. I really was impressed. However, if you do not like a lot of foul language i would not suggest this book

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Janet

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The book arrived quickly and in the condition promised

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glen roach

Obviously Mount Rainier

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2000

Al Gore might have grown up there had his father been a plumber who moved north for work. Not many St.Albans boys in that neighborhood though. As in none. Gotta wonder if Harrington and Gore don't hook up once in a while what with the wellheeled intellectual Nashville/DC connection. All in all not a bad intro to a forgotten people in a very interesting time and place. I was happy to have stumbled upon it.

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carol saylor

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018

ridiculous book