Class Lives: Stories from across Our Economic Divide (A Class Action Book)

Brief and personal essays that provide insight for ones own reckoning and necessary actions with bridging the class divide. The short essay format with real life perspectives allows space to refect on the subject before further reading. This is an important book that readily contributes to ones awakening.

I used this book to supplement a unit on socio-economics.This is a collection of personal accounts of class and socio-economics. It is broken up by class assignments and the perspective range as it relates to race and gender and sexuality. Politically- the message was relatively liberal- not that I disagreed with it.Overall- this is a nice collection of short essays on class. A great place to begin the conversation and good fodder.

This is one of the few books I have read that can open people's eyes about issues of class that burden many many people at both ends of the financial spectrum. An important book that can lead to fascinating and heartfelt discussions. It is a bridge across the economic divide.

Great and thanks.

This book was ok but I had a hard time getting thru it . Maybe someday I'll try to read it again.

The book was exactly as stated! Thank you so much!!!

I loved this book! It is a collection of articles written by socially conscious individuals from a variety of class backgrounds (owning class, middle class, working class, poor/low income, and mixed class) about how their experiences affected their feelings and shaped their lives. There’s nothing more revealing and interesting than people’s own personal stories and their stories ranged from poignant to enlightening to humorous. All readers will find something (probably many things) they did not know about social class in this country. Having been raised working class myself, my circles of relationships included mostly other working class folks, as well as middle class, poor/low income, and mixed class people. I had very little exposure to owning class people, so I found this section of the book especially fascinating.I have been a social change activist involved in economic justice issues for many years and have led workshops on class/classism and worker’s rights. I’ve been a supporter of Class Action since its inception and am excited to see the work that Class Action is doing to raise awareness of these issues and to forge cross-class alliances. The introductions for each section of the book are well written and incisive summaries by the editors. I congratulate you for your successful accomplishment in publishing this book!

What a great collection to dive into the taboo that is our class backgrounds. This thoughtful anthology is insightful, entertaining and moving.