Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
by Paul Willis, Paul E. Willis (Author)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Paul E. Willis, an ethnographer and cultural theorist, is a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He is a founding editor and current joint editor of the journal Ethnography and the author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, among other books.
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- Canonical title*
- Koulun penkiltä palkkatyöhön? : Miten työväenluokan nuoret saavat työväen luokan työt?
- Original publication date
- 1977
- Dedication
- To Val
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 306.360835 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Economic institutions Systems of labor
- LCC
- HD6276 .G7 .W54 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Classes of labor
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- 7 — Chinese, English, Finnish, French, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
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