Redundant Masculinities Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

by McDowell, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780470773727
• ISBN10: 0470773723
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.

• Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.
• Looks at how the labour market is changing.
• Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.
• Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.

Author Biography

Linda McDowell is Professor of Geography at University College, London. Her previous publications include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwells, 1997) and Gender, Identity and Place (1999).

Table of Contents

List of Plates.

List of Tables.

Preface.

1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class.

2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities.

3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys.

4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield.

5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education.

6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners.

7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts.

8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities.

9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys?

Postscript.

Appendix 1: Research Methodology.

Appendix 2: The Participants.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.