Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

by McDowell, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781405105866
• ISBN10: 1405105860
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This work looks at how the labour market is changing and emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.

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	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
1 Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class	1	(25)
2 The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities	26	(30)
3 The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity: It's Hard to Be(come) a Man	56	(37)
4 Living on the Edge: Marginal Lives in Cambridge and Sheffield	93	(44)
5 Leaving School: Pathways to Employment and Further Education	137	(16)
6 Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners	153	(25)
7 Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, the Excluded, and Escape Attempts	178	(22)
8 Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities	200	(20)
9 Conclusions: What Is to Be Done About Boys?	220	(19)
Postscript	239	(4)
Appendix 1: Research Methodology	243	(4)
Appendix 2: The Participants	247	(3)
Notes	250	(2)
Bibliography	252	(25)
Index	277