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From Labouring to Learning : Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization

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Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

Swansea University Author: Michael Ward Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/9781137441751

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Since the late 1970s, global industrial changes have affected the transition to adulthood, particularly for working-class men who now require more educational qualifications than previously to gain employment. This book examines how the young men in a de-industrialized community are adapting to this...

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Published in: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
ISBN: 9781349561322 9781137441751
ISSN: 2524-6445 2524-6453
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31434
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Abstract: Since the late 1970s, global industrial changes have affected the transition to adulthood, particularly for working-class men who now require more educational qualifications than previously to gain employment. This book examines how the young men in a de-industrialized community are adapting to this situation and the problems they face.
Keywords: Young Masculinities; Gender; Education; Working-class; De-industrialization; Crisis of Masculinity; Ethnography; Erving Goffman; community; education; gender; learning; vocational education
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences