Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth /
McDowell, Linda, 1949-
Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / Linda McDowell. - xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Antipode book series ; 2 . - Antipode book series ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-276) and index.
Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class -- The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities -- The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity: It's Hard to Be(come) a Man -- Living on the Edge: Marginal Lives in Cambridge and Sheffield -- Leaving School: Pathways to Employment and Further Education -- Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners -- Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, the Excluded, and Escape Attempts -- Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities -- Conclusions: What Is to Be Done About Boys? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"The book focuses on a case study of young, white, male school leavers, based in the contrasting British cities of Cambridge and Sheffield. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches as well as interviews with the young men over the course of 18 months, it looks at the level of anxiety unskilled school leavers suffer about their sense of themselves as men and as wage earners. Linda McDowell's analysis brings together arguments about the social construction of identies and about economic restructuring to reveal that the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' is not what it seems."--BOOK JACKET.
1405105852 9781405105859 1405105860 9781405105866
2002152560
Young men--Employment--Great Britain
Men, White--Employment--Great Britain
Minorities--Employment--Great Britain
High school dropouts--Employment--Great Britain
Men, White--Psychology--Great Britain
Masculinity--Great Britain
HD6276.G72 / .M33 2003
305.2420973
Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / Linda McDowell. - xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Antipode book series ; 2 . - Antipode book series ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-276) and index.
Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class -- The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities -- The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity: It's Hard to Be(come) a Man -- Living on the Edge: Marginal Lives in Cambridge and Sheffield -- Leaving School: Pathways to Employment and Further Education -- Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners -- Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, the Excluded, and Escape Attempts -- Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities -- Conclusions: What Is to Be Done About Boys? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"The book focuses on a case study of young, white, male school leavers, based in the contrasting British cities of Cambridge and Sheffield. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches as well as interviews with the young men over the course of 18 months, it looks at the level of anxiety unskilled school leavers suffer about their sense of themselves as men and as wage earners. Linda McDowell's analysis brings together arguments about the social construction of identies and about economic restructuring to reveal that the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' is not what it seems."--BOOK JACKET.
1405105852 9781405105859 1405105860 9781405105866
2002152560
Young men--Employment--Great Britain
Men, White--Employment--Great Britain
Minorities--Employment--Great Britain
High school dropouts--Employment--Great Britain
Men, White--Psychology--Great Britain
Masculinity--Great Britain
HD6276.G72 / .M33 2003
305.2420973