List of Tables and Figure
Acknowledgments
PART I.
IDENTITY AND SOLIDARITY:
EXISTING PATTERNS AND NEW POSSIBILITIES
1. Introduction
2. Identity among the Working Poor:
Possibilities in Familiar Patterns
PART I I.
COALITIONAL WORKER SOLIDARITY: CONNECTING
AS MEMBERS OF DISTINCT DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS
3. “They’re a Lot Like Us”: Understanding Coalitional
Solidarity, Developing It, and the Role of
Associational Identity Politics
4. “Hey, It’s Not My Fault”: Barriers to Coalitional
Solidarity and the Non-Role of Associational
Identity Politics
PART III.
COLLECTIVE SOLIDARITY: THE WORKING POOR
CONNECTING ALONG A SHARED IDENTITY
5. “I Got Workers’ Backs”: Uncovering Collective
Worker Solidarity, Developing It, and the Role of
Associational Identity Politics
6. “Being a Worker Doesn’t Mean a Thing to Me”:
The How and Why of Rejecting Collective
Worker Solidarity
PART IV.
IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY CHANGE AND ACTIVISM
Introduction to Part Four
“It’s Time for Us to Really Do Something”:
Key Points for Moving Everyday Feelings
Surrounding Solidarity into Policy Change and Activism
7. “It Could Get Political”: Everyday Uses of
Collective Solidarity and Identity Politics for
Policy Change and Activism
8. “I Would Go toward the Goal They’re Trying
to Reach”: Everyday Uses of Coalitional
Solidarity and Identity Politics for Policy Change
and Activism
9. Conclusion
Appendix A Glossary of Key Terms
Appendix B Sample’s Demographic Characteristics
Appendix C Interview Schedule
Appendix D Research Design and Methodology
Notes
Works Cited
Index