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Learning to labor : how working class kids get working class jobs / by Paul Willis.
Publication details: New York : Routledge 2016Description: ix, 204 p. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781857421705 (Paperback)
- Learning to labour
- 306.360835Â 22
- HD6276.G7Â W54 1981
Contents:
Summary: This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish.
Key to transcripts;
1. Introduction;
Part I Ethnography:
2. Elements of a culture;
3. Class and institutional form of a culture;
4. Labour power, culture, class and institution;
Part II Analysis:
5. Penetrations;
6. Limitations;
7. The role of ideology;
8. Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction;
9. Monday morning and the millennium;
Index.
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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BOOKs
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. | General Stacks | 306.360835 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | PB | Available | Recommended by Dr. Karthikeyan Damodaran | 40302 |
"A Morningside book."--P. [4] of cover.
Reprint. Originally published: Learning to labour. Farnborough, Eng. : Saxon House, c1977. With new introd. and afterword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Key to transcripts;
1. Introduction;
Part I Ethnography:
2. Elements of a culture;
3. Class and institutional form of a culture;
4. Labour power, culture, class and institution;
Part II Analysis:
5. Penetrations;
6. Limitations;
7. The role of ideology;
8. Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction;
9. Monday morning and the millennium;
Index.
This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish.