Learning to Labor in New Times

by Dimitriadis,Greg

• ISBN13: 9780415948555
• ISBN10: 041594855X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Twenty-five years after the publication of Paul Willis's seminal textLearning to Labor, Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis have brought together an internationally renowned group of scholars to reflect on the meaning and influence of what many consider to be the most influential book of our time in critical education and cultural studies.Learning to Labor in New Timesrefocuses attention on the themes that have been central to Willis's work, including the relationship between schooling and work, the lives of working class youth, and the continuing importance of ethnography as a research methodology. Concluding with an original essay by Paul Willis, readers will be reinvigorated by the intellectual vibrancy of daring to study the daily worlds of everyday youth.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Learning to Labor in New Times: an Introduction

Reflecting on Learning To Labor

Male Working Class Identities and Social Justice: A Reconsideration of

Learning to Labor in Light of Contemporary Research

Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future

Between Good Sense and Bad Sense: Race, Class, and Learning from Learning to Labor

The "Lads" and the Cultural Topography of Race

Learning To Labor in New Times

Reordering Work and Destabilizing Masculinity

Revisiting a 1980's "Moment of Critique": Class, Gender and the New Economy

Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Post-industrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration

Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life

Twenty-Five Years On: Old Books, New Times

Appendix

Index

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