"From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young...
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"From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization 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. "-- Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue 1. Introduction 2. The Valleys: History, Modernity and Masculinities 3. The Valley Boiz: Re-Traditionalising Masculinity 4. The Geeks: The Performance of Studious Working-Class Masculinity 5. The Emos: Alternative Masculinities? 6. Working-Class Masculinities in Vocational Education and Training Courses 7. Jimmy the Chameleon: Multiple Performances of Self 8. Conclusion: Growing Up into Uncertain Futures
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-199) and index
Machine generated contents note:Prologue 1. Introduction 2. The Valleys: History, Modernity and Masculinities 3. The Valley Boiz: Re-Traditionalising Masculinity 4. The Geeks: The Performance of Studious Working-Class Masculinity 5. The Emos: Alternative Masculinities? 6. Working-Class Masculinities in Vocational Education and Training Courses 7. Jimmy the Chameleon: Multiple Performances of Self 8. Conclusion: Growing Up into Uncertain Futures.
