and Russell W. Rumberger, The Educational Implications of High Technology (1983); George T. Silvestri et al., "Occupational Employment Projections through 1995," and Valerie A. Personick, "The Job Outlook through 1995," in Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 2197, Employment Projections for 1995 (March 1984); Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, "The Grim Truth about the Job 'Miracle,' " New York Times, I Feb. 1987; Time, 10 Oct. 1988, 28-32; and Katherine S. Newman, Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class (1988).

My analysis of the lower-middle-class ethic of limits draws on E. E. LeMasters, Blue-Collar Aristocrats: Life-styles at a Working-Class Tavern (1975); Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century City (1964); Lloyd Warner, American Life: Dream and Reality (1953); Lillian Rubin, Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family (1976); Lee Rainwater, Richard P. Coleman, and Gerald Handel, Workingman's Wife (1959); Robert Coles, "The Maid and the Missus," Radcliffe Quarterly 65 (March 1979): 77ff.; Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and ItaliansofBrooklyn against Liberalism (1985); Ira Shar, Culture Wars: Schools and Society in the Conservative Restoration (1986); Julius Lester, "Beyond Ideology: Transcending the Sixties," Tikkun 3 (Jan.-Feb. 1988): 53-56; and Herbert J. Gans, Middle‐ American Individualism (1988). Though Gans persists in misreading my own work as one more example of the highbrow critique of middle America, his book provides a good deal of support for the interpretations I have advanced here. He notes, for example, that "middle America is a combination of working-class and lower-middle-class families," which fall below the "upper middle class of affluent professionals, managers and executives, as well as the upper class of top executives and coupon clippers." He also notes that "their political thinking does not follow conventional Left-Right positions."

Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984), is the best study of the abortion controversy. E. Patricia McCormick, Attitudes toward Abortion: Experiences of Selected Black and White Women (1975); Frederick S. Jaffe et al., Abortion Politics (1981); Marilyn Falik, Ideology and Abortion Policy Politics (1983); and Hyman Rodman et al., The Abortion Question (1987), are not terribly helpful. For the courts' growing attention to questions concerning the "quality of life," see "A New Ethic for Medicine and Society," California Medicine 113 (Sept. 1970): 67-68; Robert A. Destro, "Guaranteeing the 'Quality' of Life through Law: The Emerging 'Right' to a Good Life," in Richard John Neuhaus, ed., Guaranteeing the Good Life (1990); and Richard John Neuhaus, "The Return of Eugenics," Commentary 85 (April 1988): 15-26, reprinted in Guaranteeing the Good Life.

The most evenhanded account of the school wars in Boston is J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground (1985). Brian Sheehan, The Boston School Integration Dispute: Social Change and Legal Maneuvers (1984), presents a good analysis of the political alignments growing out of earlier battles over urban renewal. Martha Bayles criticizes the single-minded preoccupation with "racism" in her article "On Busing in Boston," Harper's, July 1980, 77-79. Ione Malloy's diary of the South Boston

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