Columbia University Press
Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs
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- Paul Willis
- Columbia University Press
- Paperback
- 9780231178952
- 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.8 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Social Science > Sociology - Urban
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Learning to Labor demonstrates the pervasiveness of class in lived experience. Its detailed and sympathetic ethnography emphasizes subjectivity and the role of working-class people in making their culture. Willis shows how resistance does not simply challenge the social order, but also constitutes it. The lessons of Learning to Labor apply as much to the United States as to the United Kingdom, especially the finding that education, rather than helping overcome hierarchies, can often perpetuate them, which is of renewed relevance at a time when education is trumpeted as meritocratic and a panacea for inequality.
Author Bio
Paul Willis is a professor in the faculty of education at Beijing Normal University. His books include The Ethnographic Imagination (2000), Moving Culture (1990), and Profane Culture (1978).
Source: Columbia University Press
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