Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

by McDowell, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781405105859
• ISBN10: 1405105852
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-08
• 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

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 or The Problem of/for Boys

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?

Postscript

Research Methodology

The Participants

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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