Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France: To Be like Everyone Else (Routledge

Description: List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: Subalterns in a `society of the similar¿: A study of the lifestyles of the stable-modest fractions of the contemporary working classes; 2 An exploration of the working classes starting from their middle fractions: A two-pronged approach, through statistics and case studies; Part 1: Stories of stabilisation; 3 Introduction to Part 1: Stories of stabilisation; 4 `We aimed too high¿: A household destabilised by its residential and professional aspirations ¿ Élodie Paillé and Clément Jacquet; 5 Planning life: A strong investment in activities other than work ¿ Laurent Douillard and Thomas Guillet; 6 `A mellow job¿ and living with a friend: A young, single male worker¿s adjustment to a subaltern condition ¿ Romain Boyer; 7 Holding on: Sparing no effort to stabilise an unstable position ¿ Véronique Delage; 8 `Getting it right this time¿: Aspiring to join the world of intellectuals ¿ Yamina and Souleymane Diallo; 9 `Yoüve got to fight¿: Work as a resource for a fragile success ¿ Mina and Michel Carry; 10 Making a virtue of simplicity: The hedonistic choices of labouring couple ¿ Yvon and Michou Ratelier; 11 A story of social reclassification: A couple from rural backgrounds gone to the city ¿ Mireille and Roger Monteil; Part II: Gender relations and domestic space; 12 Introduction to Part 2: Gender relations and domestic space; 13 Being a mother and unemployed: Resisting being stuck at home ¿ Laeticia and Valentin Dufour; 14 The power of two femininities ¿ Régine and Hervé Leblanc; 15 A business that works: Breaking away from the family model, relying on family help ¿ Cécile and Jean-Marc Pilier; 16 An interlude of equality: `Stéphanie is there with the children, she can manage the homework¿ ¿ Nicolas and Stéphanie Fontaine; 17 Keeping the conjugal peace: A compensatory domestic equality ¿ Cécilia and Éric Dufar; 18 Being a housewife: Between permanence and evolution of a traditional role ¿ Nadège and Patrick Lancel; Part III: Triangular social consciousness and institutional `goodwill¿ ¿ the reconfiguration of relations with other social groups; 19 Introduction to Part 3: Triangular social consciousness and institutional `goodwill¿: the reconfiguration of relations with other social groups; 20 Being a respectable woman: Between the stigma of housing estates and the union in-group ¿ Chantal Monlouis; 21 `Simple people¿? A local labour family, between social reproduction and openness ¿ Nathalie and Alain Rigaux; 22 `It¿s really important to be able to grow¿: Social ambitions and political disappointments in a working-class household ¿ Vanessa Le Coz and Samuel Bidaud; 23 Always between two worlds: One couple¿s split local social life ¿ Manou and Jean Audouin; 24 The cleaning woman and the school parents¿ association: Multipositionality in the working classes ¿ Myriam and Nicolino Sanatanazefi; 25 Getting back to a `normal life¿: Biographical disruptions and `institutional goodwill¿ ¿ Sylvie Barderon and Enzo; 26 `I¿ve had two lives¿: Self-improvement work and the infiltration of psychological culture into working-class worlds ¿ Philippe and Marianne Chapalain; 27 Conclusion: Goodwill as necessity: Aspirations of the middle fraction of the working classes and how they relate to norms; Appendix A: Socio-professional categories; Appendix B: Equivalency chart of the primary and secondary educational systems in France, the UK, and the US; Appendix C: Educational qualifications; Index

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