1st Edition
Learning to Labour How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
By Paul Willis
Copyright 1978
215 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
215 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Key to transcripts; Introduction. Part I Ethnography: Elements of a culture; Class and institutional form of a culture; Labour power, culture, class and institution. Part II Analysis: Penetrations; Limitations; The role of ideology; Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction; Monday morning and the millennium. Index.
Biography
Paul Willis
