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This classic text message addresses one of the main issues in modern sociable theory and insurance plan: how sociable inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Levels housing project where we found the "Brothers" and the "Hallway Hangers". Their storyline of poverty, contest, and defeatism changed listeners and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod's return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, uncovered little improvement in the lives of the men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground current economic climate. The third model of this traditional ethnography of sociable reproduction brings the story of inequality and sociable mobility into today's dialogue. Now totally modified with 13 new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and contrast to the original conclusions, Ain't No Makin' It remains an adored and invaluable text message.
