rebelliousness and resignation" (24-25). She also notes the conflict between the guilt accompanying the confessions of working-class interviewees with respect to the suffering of their childhoods, and the denial that any such suffering existed. Rubin then compares that guilt and denial to the relative openness of middle-class young adults accustomed to psychotherapy. This working-class guilt and denial has likely diminished somewhat since 1972, thanks to the spread of psychotherapeutic treatment to the working-class and throughout society in general. However, certainly much of the suffering which requires therapeutic intervention continues unabated in working-class families and childhoods.
The injustices of working-class childhood feed upon one another. For ex
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