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For the working-class student, higher education was supposed to be everything that the working-class world was not, even if the image of the ivory tower and the promise of release from the working-class life have never been realized or fulfilled. Demystifying the university has had the unintended effect of killing the working-class dream of going to college as an escape from a way of life that our parents and their parents hoped their children could avoid. Working-class college graduates today are still part of the working class in spite of allegedly having fulfilled one of the sufficient conditions for exit from the working class, namely, receiving a college degree. This chapter provides an account of how this happened.
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Di Leo, J.R. (2017). Punch the Clock. In: Higher Education under Late Capitalism. New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49858-4_7
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