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Limbo (w/ Alfred Lubrano)

Blue collar roots, white collar dreams from Philadelphia Inquirer reporter

Alfred Lubrano is the Philadelphia Inquirer’s poverty reporter and the author of Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. The book explores the conflicts within individuals who grow up working class but graduate into a white-collar career. These “straddlers” are often torn between the culture that raised them and the professional world to which they aspired.

"Limbo" has been quoted in the Harvard Business Review, the American Bar Association Journal, The Atlantic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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