New Twists in an Old Wound

New Twists in an Old Wound

The Hidden Injuries of Class, by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 257 pp.

The Hidden Injuries of Class reveals the worker once again as victim of the system rather than beneficiary, but in terms that owe more to the Movement criteria of the late 1960s than to the continuing realities of the industrial world. Probing beneath the lingering hardhat stereotype, the book is devoted in the main to extrapolation from interviews—conducted under ...