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From Labouring to Learning : Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization / by Michael R.M. Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Michael R.M., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6453
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Educational sociology.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Education, Higher.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of Education.
- Social Structure.
- Higher Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of Education.
- Social Structure.
- Higher Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book Prize This book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial community and challenges commonly held representations that often appear in the media and in policy discourses which portray them as feckless, out of control, educational failures and lacking aspiration. Ward argues that for a group of young men in a community of social and economic deprivation, expectations and transitions to adulthood are framed through the industrial legacy of geographically and historically shaped class and gender codes. These codes have an impact on what it means to be a man and what behaviour is deemed acceptable and what is not.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Prologue1. Introduction2. The South Wales Valleys: History, Modernity and Masculinities3. The Valley Boiz: Re-Traditionalising Masculinity4. The Geeks: The Performance of Studious Working-Class Masculinities5. The Emos: Alternative Masculinities?6. 'He's Got the Pussy, We've Just Got the Nuts': Working-Class Masculinities in Vocational Education and Training Courses7. Jimmy the Chameleon: Multiple Performances of Self8. Conclusion: Growing Up into Uncertain Futures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781137441751
- 1137441755
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