“Working-class families,” Carol Leste Law, coeditor of This Fine Place, observes in her introduction, “whether they are able to articulate it or not, know that a college degree has everything to do with class, unlike professional or managerial-class families, who believe it has to do with merit and entitlement. They know that somehow the very existence of a college degree undermines and actually threatens their children’s and consequently their own working-class identity” (Dews and Law 1995, 5).
